What Obama Means to the World

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090202/younge, Gary Younge looks back at the race struggles that have taken place throughout history. He begins by looking back at the wrongfull imprisonment of author and screenwriter Ronan Bennett, who was imprisoned by the British in the 70's, though Bennett had never met a black person the one book that was most influential to him during his prison stay was Soledad Brother, which was the prison letters of a black American militant George Jackson. Even though Bennett had never met a black person, black America loomed large in his life, because of the the struggles he had watched and viewed through the media and on television, he and his family had great sympothy for black Americans. Through the last centruy Younger discusses, the redemptive force and permanent dissidence against racism at home and abroad, and the reminder that no African has came to freedom at the shores of the New World. Younge article looks back at the struggle after struggle that black Americans have seemed to overcome and the influence they have had on other countries. He brings up Kwame Nkrumah who once in power in a newly independent Ghana, sent for black American intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois to edit the Encyclopedia Africana and Paul Robeson to take up the chair of music and drama at Accra University. Younge goes on to point out other greats such as Muhammad Ali, Malik Bowens, but the big event for truimph was the even that occurred on November 4, 2008, after years of struggle for blacks, there is a new black president and it showed to the world the greatness of the dream that finally came true. With America's new black president it has shown the rest of the world that it is time to move on, and the struggle that black Americans were able to overcome.
I truly agree that having a black president is truly a monumental thing and I am so glad that black Americans have been able to overcome their struggles from the past and I truly see this as a wonderful thing.