Black Power

I'm telling you that i had to salute that great man for his hardwork to be the 44th President Of The United States.He had gone through some hard times of coarse when his grandmother died on the eve of election day which was on 4th November 2008.Young generations should actually look up after that man since..I mean you guys must have known how black people got tortured in the past times,how they have been treated as slaves.

And imagine all those people who are really riskin' their lives (those time people) to protect their race like Martin Luther King Jr. for example.

He was a great man whom were fighting for the African-American Civil Rights Movement and Peace movement.But he was assassinated on 3rd April 1968.


Then here comes Nelson Mandela as the first President of South Africa to be elected in fully representative democratic elections, serving from 1994–1999.He was convicted for crimes that occurred while he was spearheading the struggle against apartheid. He spent 27 years in prison for this, with many of those years being spent on Robben Island.

In South Africa and internationally, Mandela became a symbol of freedom and equality for his opposition to apartheid, while the apartheid government and nations sympathetic to it condemned him and the ANC as communists and terrorists.

In the 20th century come from norwhere Barack Obama.

Obama is the first African-American to be elected President of the United States, and was also the first African-American to be nominated for President by a major U.S. political party.

A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he became the first black person to serve as president of the Harvard Law Review, Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.

Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate in January 2003.

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12:14 a.m. – Obama then honors a woman named Anne Nixon Cooper, who is 106 years old and lives in Georgia, who voted today. She had been in Selma. She has heard the Rev.Marthin Luther King Jr.Yes we can,she says

“This is our moment, this is our time."

12:11 a.m. – Obama speaks to those who did not vote for him, saying he hears their concerns. “I will be your president too,” he says. And he speaks to the world: “Our stories are singular but our destiny is shared.” And he declares

A new dawn of American leadership is at hand.”

As the extraordinary spectacle of the first African-American winning the presidency was taking place on stage, something extraordinary was taking place offstage:

Obama was racking up a stunning 338 electoral votes, at least so far. McCain was left with 156. Race, it seemed, had melted away as an issue.

Something else was happening too. While the whole world was standing back in amazement that America had elected its first black president, Obama asked not to be seen as a black man. As in his acceptance speech at the Democratic convention in Denver, he did not mention the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. by name.

Yes, he told a gripping story. But it was not his story. He framed the journey of the civil rights struggle through the person of a 106-year-old woman in Georgia, Ann Nixon Cooper, who voted today.
She was “born just a generation past slavery” but for many years couldn’t vote for two reasons, he said, shifting the attention slightly off the matter of race: “because she was a woman and because of the color of her skin.”

The vivid historic symbols were hers: “She was there for the buses in Montgomery, the hoses in Birmingham, a bridge in Selma, and a preacher from Atlanta who told a people that We shall overcome. Yes we can.”

He shifted the focus again so that her story was not solely about race.
A man touched down on the Moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was connected by our own science and imagination,'' Obama said, conveying the passage of time. And then this: “And this year, in this election, she touched her finger to a screen and cast her vote, because after 106 years in America, through the best of times and the darkest of hours, she knows how America can change.”
It was arguably the most stirring part of an otherwise unremarkable speech. And it came at the end. The occasion called for more grandeur than Obama seemed to allow himself. His muting of the racial component perhaps signaled the way he intends to govern, not as the black president but, as he said, the president of the whole country.