Will the Americans Elect a Black President?

Until recently Hilary Clinton was believed to be the victor over Barack Obama, and to be the one to face the Senator from Arizona, John McCain, in the presidential election next November. But no one had counted on the determination of the Senator from Illinois, who has just made history by winning the Democratic nomination. It remains to be seen if the “Yankees” will cross the Rubicon and elect a “black” to the White House.

From now on it’s almost official: Barack Obama will be the Democratic candidate in the next American presidential election. The super delegates without a doubt will follow in the steps of the states which have already voted by plebiscite against Mrs. Clinton. After Martin Luther King and Jesse Jackson, the Senator from Illinois enters the circle of men-of-color who have moved America.

Who is Barack Obama?

Born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, the man who has now entered into the Pantheon of great Black North Americans, has a genealogy from Africa, the “cradle of humanity”. His parents met in Hawaii when they were young students. Obama is the son of a Kenyan father and American mother. His “papa”, Barack Hussein Obama (1936-1982), is the son of a Luo healer. Barack Hussein Obama was educated in the Muslim religion, but was not himself religious. As a young chef for the colonists at Alego, on the coast of Lake Victoria, he entered a missionary school which payed for his education in Nairobi, before sending him to pursue a course in econometrics at the University of Hawaii. There he founded the foreign student association and obtained the best grades in his class. His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham (1942-1995), is a descendant of Jefferson Davies, who was the president of the Confederate States of America. She came from a Christian background, but was agnostic. She was also of Cherokee descent through her father. Originally from Kansas, she was the daughter of a furniture salesman, a veteran of the Army of Patton and of a bank employee who worked for the aeronautics factories in Wichita, Kansas in 1941. Stanley Ann Dunham was an anthropology student at the University of Hawaii when she met her future husband, Barack Hussein Obama…

As a side note, “Barack” means “blessed” in Hebrew, in Arabic and in Swahili. But will this semantic coincidence be enough to make the famous Senator from Illinois the first black President of the United States? Certainly, nothing is more sure.

The Attitude of the Americans and the CIA

For the past week the American news services have declared the fall of international terrorism and the immediate defeat of al-Qaida. But certain informed specialists have not missed seeing this for what it was, a marketing ploy by the Republicans, who hope to protect the White House after eight years of George Bush’s catastrophes. But, in addition to the attitude of the CIA, who some think have the intention of assassinating Obama, the question is in the hands of the American public. Is the electorate of Uncle Sam’s country ready to have a black President? Do they want to elect someone who is not a WASP, that is to say, someone who is not a white protestant? They have done it once before, in 1960, with John Fitzgerald Kennedy. And everyone knows what followed…