Letter to the Editor
America is ready for Obama
America is ready to have a president that represents all Americans. America is ready to have a President who knows what it is like to grow up in a single parent home on welfare.
America is ready to have a President who knows what it is like to go to live with grandparents when it is necessary for a better home environment. America is ready for a president who will reward employers who create and revive industries here in the United States and penalize those employers who are shipping industries to foreign countries robbing our country of jobs, taxes and the dignity of honest work.
Americans are ready for a President who will put “his money where his mouth is” and fund education initiatives that work to prepare Americans for “high and low tech jobs”. Americans are ready for a president who represents the proverbial “melting pot” that this country was supposed to become before the horrors of slavery by race and Jim Crow laws became the reality.
America is ready for Barack Obama to be President and I am so proud that he has chosen to identify himself to be Black.
The King of England didn’t voluntarily give the colonies their independence.
The southern states didn’t voluntarily give up their slaves.
The segregated schools didn’t voluntarily allow African Americans to enroll.
The citizens of American can’t wait for the bigots of this country to decide that it is the right time for a Black American is be President.
THE TIME IS NOW FOR BARACK OBAMA TO BECOME PRESIDENT AND REPRESENT ALL AMERICANS! AND BY THE WAY, HE IS BLACK.
James Menifee
Instructional Assistant, CIS Computer Lab
Laney College, Oakland, CA
America is ready for Obama
Thursday, October 23, 2008
The Black Hour
