In 2008-2009 candidate and eventual president, Barack Obama underwent this scrutiny. ... Essayist and Journalist, Erin Aubry Kaplan, discusses both topics in her essay, Barack Obama: Miles Traveled, Miles to Go. ... Kaplan begins her essay on a personal note discussing her happiness at his election win and the idea of, "how Barack was close to me he could have been in third grade with me. " Kaplan is explain the President Obama grew up and experience what other typical black children experience. ... Do I hold that against Obama? ... Regardless, President Barack Obama is a great man. ...
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 ...
Barack Obama's speech "A more perfect union" shows how the African American community has been prevented from achieving their American dream due to all the laws that have been passed. ... Barack Obama argues that even though some black people succeed not all blacks get a taste of the American dream. ... (Obama) This is an interesting way of looking at the way race affects our American dream because many blacks were not able to own their own land due to the power that whites were given. ... Today Barack Obama has achieved his goal of becoming president and maybe his American dre...
" President Barack Obama, July 22, 2009 In addition to targeting the African American community, racial and religious profiling also affect a broad range of communities, including Native American, Latino, Arab, Muslim and South Asian communities (Rights Working Group website, n.d.). ...
Many black Americans believed that through the installation of America's first black President, Barack Obama, a change was really going to come. Black American's heeded to his campaign slogan of "Yes We Can" and invested all of their time and energy into ensuring that Obama would be instated as the President of the free world. Obama promised the black population change but as the musician Sam Cooke once sang, a "change is gonna come" but when he goes to his brother (the white man); Cooke continues to sing that he "winds up knocking me down, back down on my k...