Thursday, March 28, 2024

What is the President’s Racial Legacy? President Obama to be First sitting President to visit a Federal Prison

*President Barack Obama has announced he will be the first sitting U.S. President to visit a federal prison.  This is a monumental statement about his position on the issues of criminal justice. It is expected he will announce major reforms to the criminal justice system in the coming weeks.

This week Antonio Moore performed a thorough analysis of the racial legacy President Obama has left over two terms, check it out:  Full Piecehttps://www.huffingtonpost.com/antonio-moore/the-state-of-our-imperfec_1_b_7540060.html

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It is undeniable that his presence has represented a movement in America’s political mindset. A country that only 50 years prior had held black Americans in the status of second class citizens, has now voted a black man into the highest office in the land. President Obama won with the vote of a broad base of supporters across a vast array of ethnic and socioeconomic lines. Yet, it cannot be understated that the delivery of the African American vote with unparalleled turnout was a key to his election wins. His election was believed by many to be the mark of the achievement of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of equality. President Obama served as an indicator that we as a nation could finally look beyond color, and elect on more than appearance, and ethnic origin…

Trayvon Martin moved him beyond the “beer summit” with Henry Gates at the White House, or a partial response to the issues of black farmers demanding fair treatment when applying for Agriculture Department loans. Trayvon Martin’s death had a heartbeat that echoed of Emmett Till. It forced the President to look in the mirror and deliver the iconic line that reminded us all of his awareness of his blackness, no matter how white the house he lived in was painted.

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