Will Obama Avenge History?

Even if Obama were to become the president of the United States, it is difficult to imagine that he would try to make radical changes against the American Empire. This myth, however, has affected both the Americans and the rest of the world. Barack Obama has been nominated as the Democratic Party’s official candidate in the November 2008 U.S. presidential election, making it the first time a Black (or perhaps Brown) individual has come so close to the White House.

Obama’s charismatic character has been his winning card until now, but the pro-war Republicans are doing all they can to find something Islamic in his past in order to target this strength. His other strengths are his superb advertisement and strategic team, together with the hatred George Bush has created by starting two wars, killing thousands of people and ruining two countries with no outcome, but that of economic recession for the U.S. Other contributors to his success are both the Black Americans and the Americans who have faith in the fact that their country’s policies will someday change from this Imperial model.

No one could have imagined during the 16th and 17th centuries when Blacks were kidnapped from their African tribes and brought to the New World to become slaves in mines and farms, or during the 19th century when Black slaves were freed, only to have a dreadful life in a racist American society, or during the 50 years when hundreds of Black Americans were murdered for being slightly impolite to a White American, that someday one of their successors could become this close to power in a nation built on the genocide of Indians, in a country that continues the same savage policies to this day.

There are many who believe that Obama won’t be able to go further, but it is still too soon for America to pay for the revenge of the slaves with the defeat of its Yankee Imperial Ideology. Even though Obama’s victory would be surprising, it should not be considered impossible. This could be the chance for America to return to its more Democratic era and relieve the world of its Imperial harassment.

Even if Obama were to become president of the United States, it would be difficult to imagine that he would try to make radical changes against the American Empire. However, many Americans and may people in the rest of the world hope for this myth. But maybe we can say again what we said after September 11, 2001–the world after June 3, 2008 would never be the same.