Cross posted from Hillblogger3
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Barack Obama, left, who has been elected the first black President of the United States. Right, a former slave called Peter reveals the scars from a savage whipping. The photograph was taken in 1863 after he escaped a plantation in the southern slave states to become a Union soldier in the American Civil War. It was two years before Illinois – Obama's home state – became the first to ratify Abraham Lincoln's 13th Amendment and officially outlaw slavery. (From The First Post)
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8 comments:
ANA
"Kaya ba natin? Kaya natin!
Oui,on peut!
EQ
"The Community Organizer is the next US President!" - this was my very first comment yesterday at ET; it appeared and then......it disappeared! What tf is wrong with that!
Where's the "free press" and "transparency"? I know, I shouldn't be asking you. Cheers anyways! It does feel good Obama dumped McPalin.
Whoa!! My post at ET reappeared again!?!? wtf!? hmmm...
i do hope obama tidies up the recession. =)
hey anna, that's a rarety, the peter photo, first one ive ever seen, thanks.
Hi Angela! What a sad sight...
Barack Obama won the presidency, it seemed that most of the media wanted to trot out historians to certify that this election was indeed “historic.”
Of course, it does not take a Ph.D. in history to note that the first elevation of a black man to the White House in a country with America’s racist past was momentous. Moreover, every presidential election is historic given the attention we pay to voting and the job’s significance. But this question of “was this election historic” was fishing in deeper waters. Reporters wanted historians to label 2008 as significant as 1980 when Ronald Reagan launched his revolution or 1960 when John Kennedy inspired a generation or 1932 when Franklin Roosevelt tackled the Great Depression. And historians can safely say that there never had been such a cataclysmic domestic event during a general election campaign as this Crash of 2008. But we all know that it is too early to know whether Barack Obama’s presidency will be as transformative as he hopes. He could be the next Franklin D. Roosevelt – or Jimmy Carter redux.
It will be transformational if the American people cooperate, otherwise, it will flop.
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