Actually, I like Barak Obama who is president of United State. He is Black . He is first African American president in American history. I don't know why people discriminate with African American and Native American. It just seems to be 'prejudice'. They are not different from any other people.
I think that people who have a power in American society as African American are Barak Obama ;the president of United State, Rice;ex-secretary of national security of United State , and Ophra Winfrey;the host of Ophra Winfrey's show. Among these people, my opinion is that the most effective person is Barak Obama.United State has discrimination and white previlege, but their citizen chose African -American president.
I think that Obama gave new hope to people. When he was 2 years old, his parents divorced. He lived with his mother, and she kept saying that African- American is not inferior level to him. One day, he read a magazine that people failed their mission which changed their face color from black to white through surgery and he was shocked. He was addticted the drug by shock. However, he realized that it was not helpful to him and turned to lawyer for people's right. Even though he had hard time, he overcome it. Also, he had a leadership which can give faith to people. When I read a his autography, he mentioned that he was addicted drug in the book. When I read that phrase, I was suprised because he was very honest. Also, I though that it could be caused some problem in his election. However, he said that he can give hope to new generation who have a hard time in their life right now because he overcome his difficulties when he attacked from other parties, everytime. He is very honest. If I were him, I just said that it was my mistake and I will not do it again, trust me. He used different way. Addtionally, he insisted on unity of all American include Latino and African American. In his book, he said that United State only has United State of America without African- American and Latino-American. I think he is very brave man. It is not to say in White society, but he did it.
I doubted when he was elected to president of United State. The reaon is that he is Black.!!!!!!! I have obvious racism in my mind about Black people. Also, I saw the TV drama '24' season 1 . A story of this drama is when United State had first African American president, people who was aginst him as White Terrorists planned to assasinate the president.It made me very nervous as if it will be true story. However, I trust Obama because he is the person who give me new 'American Dream'. I am from Korea,I can not speak English well, but I will follow his saying and achive my American Dream.
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There is some good discussion here about white privilege and the American Dream. I appreciate your honesty about being surprised when he was elected and also how his election connects to your personal dreams.
ReplyDeleteThe topics for this week's blog were class or disability; I don't see enough discussion of these themes. You mention the American Dream but not in the context of class. You also discuss Obama's autobiography without a citation.