My good friend over at VIMBY Zosimo Maximo has taken it upon himself to bring you a personal labour of love that needs to be conveyed and the message spread.

From Zosimo:

I reached out to many of you Friday about a personal video I put together called Obama+MKL Remix 08 where I found references from MLK’s “I Have a Dream” and mixed them into Barack’s DNC speech. Thank you for your great comments and for passing it around. I had more time to spend with it this weekend and found more parallels between the two speeches and came up with a tighter version.

I made the video as a reaction to being inspired by his speech.  The next day I realized that as a content creator I have a medium and access to an on-line community who’s targeted demo can make a difference in Obama’s campaign.  As we know, much of Obama’s’ success will heavily rely on “Generation Buzz”  and more specifically the urban youth market that most of us cater to.

I want to do more than cast my one vote, so I’m connecting with you today because you are all influential voices who are looked upon by your audiences to feed them information.  Collectively, we are a powerful community because we are the filter of relevance.   As VIMBY has displayed, the videos that my team and I have created for many of you on your events, artists, sneaker drops, trade shows, etc… can quickly spread when many of you get behind the promotion of it.

Several of you are posting Obama entries now, but I see a lack of content that hits home with our audience. I am personally committed to creating an original series of videos called “The Obama Remixes” to promote his campaign. I know when I was 18 I didn’t care much for politics because the way the messages where being delivered didn’t speak to me.  My plan is to do these in a style that connects to our target demo.

I am neither looking to create the next web phenomenon like Obama Girl whose creator has admitted that the video was never intended to promote Obama nor am I trying to monetize them.  They will have one goal and that is to help put Obama into the White House and to communicate his message at a street level access to guarded communities that McCain’s party can’t reach.  I feel our challenge is to actually get our audience to vote and I am open to your ideas and ready to collaborate with anyone willing on the series.

So, I call on you today to help me take the next step by giving me 10 minutes of your time by posting or mentioning the Obama+MLK Remix 08 to your blogs, facebooks, myspace pages, newsletters, personal email lists, etc…

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