By Lamakhosi Kunene (Reprinted by permission.)
IBM, PC’s, MAC, I love you across blinking classifieds hit send & cross continents Numbers always make my head spin a billion served everyday (we all know who said that) Imagine how many you can reach Okay here I am the cross-roads of culture singing zulu lullabies to a city that never sleeps Vukani, vukani bo! Wake up, wake up! I'm asking, how many hands, mow many hearts, how many hearts can you reach? Can anyone of us reach-in a chat, on the web? Does infinite potential scare you? What about the infinite potential to change what is, to what should be? To demand justice for the 16 year old Israeli girl who just emailed me? To receive her tears, hear her desperation & deliver a petition signed by 16,000 16 year olds on the Internet to 16 of the world's most influential leaders. the potential is infinite... The digital divide it's very simple it's those who know & those who have no access to cross to the other side. OurSite is your site, access for all. Millions of dollars taken from school budgets 1 in 4 kids on the Internet few after school programs Someone told me, in Singapore you are given an email account when you're born and you have to ask who's watching? but this ain't that old one-way tv watching experience We yell with screaming exclamation points in heated debates from Chicago to China. I fell in love with a South African boy from my computer in Santa Monica, CA We paint sunsets with words pull continents together Told me he saw African angels flying when Alvin Ailey came to his town. The potential is infinite, our potential is infinite. Who knows? Who knows which child when given access will access the cure to cancer? An Indonesian boy researching on the Internet with a Minnesota girl, meeting at OurSite.org maybe not cancer, maybe AIDS ... maybe the cure to AIDS We don't know which one, which child I believe that the magic is in the telling that just by saying, by writing, by typing it, anything can be brought into being when millions of people bring their beauty to this Net, this World Wide Web what a colourful vibrant collision of curiosity, of dreams what a quilt of various visions, when we meet at one place that is OurSite A nexus of power what a meeting of spirits!! We you and I are a living celebration of what can be, of what is You are the inspiration I spend my days searching for The love I so often speak of I love you as I love air, as I love life as I love love Access is our right we move boldly into the future accessing our infinite potential at OurSite
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