1stRambo
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Yo, Dear Lord, Please Forgive The Ignorant For Not Using What You Gave To Them, A Brain, Amen! You notice how they put the whole population of Blacks in one bunch!
Black Americans weep for the Obama era and uncertain future
By ERRIN HAINES WHACK
Jan. 19, 2017 3:40 PM EST
WASHINGTON (AP) — On the night in 2008 when Barack Obama was elected the country's first black president, many black Americans wept. Eight years later, they weep again for the end of an era some thought they would never live to see — and for the uncertain future they face without him.
In Obama, many African-Americans felt they had a leader who celebrated their culture and confronted their concerns. In his wife, Michelle, they saw a national role model who epitomized style and grace with brown skin.
Now some regard the election of his successor as the price of black progress and the culmination of years of racist rhetoric directed at the Obamas — at times stoked by President-elect Donald Trump himself.
"There's a great deal of melancholy and fear and despair," said Lester Spence, professor of political science and Africana studies at Johns Hopkins University. "This is a dynamic that the vast majority of black America has only read about or seen in movies. They don't understand the potential of what's coming."
Black Americans weep for the Obama era and uncertain future
"GTP"
Black Americans weep for the Obama era and uncertain future
By ERRIN HAINES WHACK
Jan. 19, 2017 3:40 PM EST
WASHINGTON (AP) — On the night in 2008 when Barack Obama was elected the country's first black president, many black Americans wept. Eight years later, they weep again for the end of an era some thought they would never live to see — and for the uncertain future they face without him.
In Obama, many African-Americans felt they had a leader who celebrated their culture and confronted their concerns. In his wife, Michelle, they saw a national role model who epitomized style and grace with brown skin.
Now some regard the election of his successor as the price of black progress and the culmination of years of racist rhetoric directed at the Obamas — at times stoked by President-elect Donald Trump himself.
"There's a great deal of melancholy and fear and despair," said Lester Spence, professor of political science and Africana studies at Johns Hopkins University. "This is a dynamic that the vast majority of black America has only read about or seen in movies. They don't understand the potential of what's coming."
Black Americans weep for the Obama era and uncertain future
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