Pros And Cons Of Barack Obama

Barack Obama’s campaign slogan was “hope” and “change” and it really resonated to me. Everyone needs the moment that you refer to when the odds are against you. If you look at the forty-thirty presidents before Obama they were all white men. This not coming from seeing the world as black and white but it’s more a lack of diversity. I am a believer in that the best man should get the job but it’s quite different when it comes to an election. There have been so many great African American men that would’ve made great presidents like Martin Luther King Jr, Fredrick Douglas and George Washington Carver just to name a few. Before Obama got elected I used to think that the only way a black president would get elected is if a weight system would be put in place in a way that minorities votes would balance out and in a way that a person cannot become president by not getting a respectable amount of the votes of the …show more content…
Hope in the sense that your background doesn’t matter. Speaking of background, I am from Ethiopia and the racial matters to me are interesting. When I came to America I knew I was coming to greatest country that embraces democracy, freedom of speech, pursuit of happiness and that everyone is equal. I was surprised when I came to America and I learned about slavery, segregation but I saw it as a symbol of how far the country has come. When I came to America I noticed that racism still existed but it was very subtle. In fact, I was surprised the people that people that were racist towards me were actually African Americans. They’re the ones that called me names, applied all the African stereotype type towards me. The integration to American culture was made harder was made harder cause I don’t speak that well, so they made fun of my accent. My few white classmates were the ones that actually that treated with respect and didn’t make fun of