"This is our moment; this is our time.” With those fateful words before a ruckus crowd in Minnesota Barrack Obama made history. I suppose had he escaped assassination Martin Luther King, Jr. would have risen to the Presidency in the same manner as Nelson Mandela in South Africa perhaps instead of Carter in 77’ but certainly he would have been considered instead of Jackson in 84’ and 88’; Colin Powell was favored to win the 1996 elections before voluntarily bowing out; George Bush was pressured in 04' by the Republican elite to replace the embattled Cheney with Condoleezza Rice. But Obama is the first African American* to be the nominee of a major political party in America: the epic consequence of a vexing cry for presidential statesmanship not the vexing guilt of a supremacist legacy. READ MORE.
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