Obama and the Second American Revolution
The world has reason to celebrate the Second American Revolution that began on November 4, 2008 when Barack Hussein Obama defeated John Sidney McCain in the US presidential election. Born in 1961, seven years after the Supreme Court's landmark decision on desegregation in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), Obama leads this revolution, which offers racial coexistence to replace memories of slavery, segregation, discrimination, prejudice, and bigotry. Nations do not correct themselves easily. That America has turned on its own history and elected a man the likes of whom have been brutally lynched in our own lifetimes, speaks well for Americans, who overwhelmingly voted to erase a race-bound past. The First American Revolution (1776) sought independence from the British Empire, and established a constitutional democracy. The Second American Revolution (2008) seeks independence from an ideology of prejudice, which has brought sorrow to millions of people at home and abroad