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Article: Barack Obama: for President of the United States of America.(Publisher's Message)
- Article from:
- The Black Collegian
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
- Author:
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I am proud to support Barack Obama for President of the United States of America. I am also proud, for the first time in my life, to be an American. I am proud to be an American because America, to a great extent, is finally overcoming its racist past by selecting a Black man, Barack Obama, as the Democratic nominee for the President of the United States of America.
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I never dreamed I would see the day when a Black man would be a major party's nominee for President. However, I clearly remember America's racist past. I clearly remember the day when my brother told me that German prisoners of war, the enemy, could eat in New Orleans' ...