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Race factor in US presidential race
Two weeks ago, the United States presidential hopeful, Senator Hillary Clinton, triggered a storm of criticism for asserting that Martin Luther King’s dream of racial equality was realised only after President Lyndon B Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. To the unsuspecting, this statement would probably have been entirely harmless.
On Obama - Why Black People Are Not Optimistic
John F Kennedy steered America away from believing that Blackness was a badge of perpetual underclass. Lyndon B Johnson pushed that process a step further by inventing affirmative action. Obama could go one more step by apologising to Global Africa for centuries of American slavery and racial abuse. For that alone, he shall not have lived in vain.
Obama, nuclear weapons and the race factor
In early August 1945, the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. The indiscriminate damage of life and property was immeasurable. It was a massive collective punishment, a classic case of the power of modern civilisation without its mercy. Ever since, the world has been haunted by two questions. Was the use of nuclear devices necessary? Would the US have used nuclear weapons against white Germany? Critics remain deeply divided.
Obama has set US black record
Few people know precisely what Barack Obama's position is on various issues that are pressing to Americans and humanity. What is known is that a black man has emerged from nowhere and is in a position only a step away from the most powerful office in the world. This is a remarkable feat in a society where a black person is traditionally looked down upon.