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Obama follows other African-American presidential hopefuls
Obama follows other African-American presidential hopefuls
WASHINGTON (AFP) — US presidential hopeful Barack Obama is not the first African-American to run for the White House nor the first to score a victory in a nominating contest, but is following in the footsteps of others who broke barriers and shaped political debate.
Out of a handful of blacks who have previously run for the country's highest office, civil rights activist and Baptist minister Jesse Jackson was the most successful.
Jackson made history in 1988 when he won 13 primaries and caucuses in the race for the Democratic party's nomination, earning 6.6 million votes and an influential voice at the party's convention. In his first bid, in 1984, Jackson won five Democratic party contests.
The legacy of America's history of slavery and racial persecution has cast a long shadow, with only three African-American senators and two black governors elected since the aftermath of the 1861-65 US civil war.
In 2004, African-Americans Al Sharpton, an activist and Christian minister, and Senator Carol Moseley Braun, made unsuccessful runs for the Democratic party nomination.
For the Republican party, former diplomat Alan Keyes made a bid for his party's nomination in 1996 and 2000, and is a running again this year.
Lenora Fulani, a black psychologist and activist, has run marginal campaigns for president as an independent.
The first African-American woman to be elected to Congress in 1968, Shirley Chisholm of New York ran for president in 1972 in a landmark campaign under the slogan "Unbought and Unbossed." She won no primary contests but was given a speaking slot at the Democrats' convention.
Comedian and activist **** Gregory also staged a modest write-in campaign for president in 1968 that garnered less than 50,000 votes.
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Obama follows other African-American presidential hopefuls
WASHINGTON (AFP) — US presidential hopeful Barack Obama is not the first African-American to run for the White House nor the first to score a victory in a nominating contest, but is following in the footsteps of others who broke barriers and shaped political debate.
Out of a handful of blacks who have previously run for the country's highest office, civil rights activist and Baptist minister Jesse Jackson was the most successful.
Jackson made history in 1988 when he won 13 primaries and caucuses in the race for the Democratic party's nomination, earning 6.6 million votes and an influential voice at the party's convention. In his first bid, in 1984, Jackson won five Democratic party contests.
The legacy of America's history of slavery and racial persecution has cast a long shadow, with only three African-American senators and two black governors elected since the aftermath of the 1861-65 US civil war.
In 2004, African-Americans Al Sharpton, an activist and Christian minister, and Senator Carol Moseley Braun, made unsuccessful runs for the Democratic party nomination.
For the Republican party, former diplomat Alan Keyes made a bid for his party's nomination in 1996 and 2000, and is a running again this year.
Lenora Fulani, a black psychologist and activist, has run marginal campaigns for president as an independent.
The first African-American woman to be elected to Congress in 1968, Shirley Chisholm of New York ran for president in 1972 in a landmark campaign under the slogan "Unbought and Unbossed." She won no primary contests but was given a speaking slot at the Democrats' convention.
Comedian and activist **** Gregory also staged a modest write-in campaign for president in 1968 that garnered less than 50,000 votes.
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If We Put the Pieces Together We Will See the Picture
So fat we are trying to make heads or tails of one little piece Got brotha Keita shouting at the top of his textual lungs and some of yawl agree and some don't and some say wait and see. But let's look at all the pieces together and maybe we won't have to wait to see which way the wind is blowing.
Why did Bush sign in the union with Canada and Mexico? This union will mean the U.S. constitution--the only document that stands in the way of him serving a third term--will be made obsolete.
Let's look at the scene when it's time to vote for the next pretzel--I mean president. We will still have the war in Iraq. We will have economic upheaval as we convert from the dollar to the amero. We will have administrative upheaval as we convert from sovereign to collective government. We will have judicial upheaval as the supreme court tries to redefine itself with no constitution to interpret. I could consume our allotted disk space with all the different kinds of upheaval that will be going on. In the midst of all this upheaval the American public will be asked to vote Bush in for a third term or vote for a Black man. What do you think will happen? Well maybe they will want to put a Black face on the chaors. Whites alway turn to us to save them when they are about to go under or to blame it on Obama
The first Black president. Oh My God! He's naked!
As at the beginning so at the end. America began with a George w. It may well end with one.
So fat we are trying to make heads or tails of one little piece Got brotha Keita shouting at the top of his textual lungs and some of yawl agree and some don't and some say wait and see. But let's look at all the pieces together and maybe we won't have to wait to see which way the wind is blowing.
Why did Bush sign in the union with Canada and Mexico? This union will mean the U.S. constitution--the only document that stands in the way of him serving a third term--will be made obsolete.
Let's look at the scene when it's time to vote for the next pretzel--I mean president. We will still have the war in Iraq. We will have economic upheaval as we convert from the dollar to the amero. We will have administrative upheaval as we convert from sovereign to collective government. We will have judicial upheaval as the supreme court tries to redefine itself with no constitution to interpret. I could consume our allotted disk space with all the different kinds of upheaval that will be going on. In the midst of all this upheaval the American public will be asked to vote Bush in for a third term or vote for a Black man. What do you think will happen? Well maybe they will want to put a Black face on the chaors. Whites alway turn to us to save them when they are about to go under or to blame it on Obama
The first Black president. Oh My God! He's naked!
As at the beginning so at the end. America began with a George w. It may well end with one.
What did Obama win exactly? If Obama proceeds after New Hampshire, somebody please tell me how is Obama going to win the south? How is he going to win the electoral college? Just asking.
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