The events surrounding Michael Brown's recent shooting in Ferguson, Missouri and the protests that followed, expose the ongoing racism in the United States. The grand jury's failure to indict Officer Darren Wilson, the white policeman responsible for Brown's death, incited a public outcry. Mainly ri...
Senator Barack Obama's A More Perfect Union begins with a quote from the most important document which has been a lynchpin of controversy since its origin. ... For example, "the slavery question was already embedded within our Constitution-the ideal of equal citizenship under the law that promised its people liberty" (Obama 1). ... For example, "A lack of economic opportunity among black men meant that black families could not amass any meaningful wealth to bequeath to future generations" (Obama 3). ...
The idea of "change" was a very large part of Barack Obama's political campaign in 2008. I think a lot of people got behind Obama because of what they thought he represented as a political leader and the direction he could lead our country. ... I don't think President Obama is by any means a bad person, but I do think that a lot of people believed he would be able to change certain aspects of our white supremacist society being a non-white person himself, but when we still have a majority of politicians who support or don't care about the inequalities presented by our ...