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Article: A black man in the White House
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- The Weekly Gleaner
- Article date:
- November 20, 2008
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LONG BEFORE Barack Obama began 'measuring the drapes' at the White House, gospel singer Lester Lewis envisioned a black man occupying the Oval Office at America's most famous residence.
In fact, 12 years before Obama became the first black man elected president of the United States, Lewis wrote I Saw a Black Man in The White House, a song that went ignored until Obama's historic victory Tuesday, November 4.
"I wrote that song after I came from New York in 1996. I gave it to Robert Livingston (Shaggy's manager) and Specialist (Clifton Dillon, Shabba Ranks' former manager) but no one wanted to take a chance on it," Lewis told The Weekly Gleaner by phone from Grenada. Steve Young, an American ...