The basic concept throughout this article was racial difference. The comparison of how racial discrimination happened in the past and how that event caused certain people to be in a disagreement today. This article also talked about how Barack Obama was not the first African American to “placed his hand on the Bible that winter day in Washington” but instead it was Hiram Rhodes Revels. Revels was the first African American to be elected as the U.S Senate. Throughout the article, it explains and clarifies how the reconstruction period took a toll on today’s events. After going through this article and reading how different things were in the past compared to now, there was a traumatic difference. People of the Reconstruction period were not
