Race

Two hundred and twenty years ago, a group of men gathered of men gathered. They wrote a document about the sin of slavery. Words on a parchment would not be enough to deliver slaves from bondage, or provide men and women of every color and creed their full rights. We hold common hopes, that we may not look the same and we may not have come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction. Towards a better future for of children and our grandchildren. Obama is the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. He was raised with the help of a white grandfather and a white grandmother. He is married to a black woman who carries within her the blood of slaves and slave owners. He has brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, uncles and cousins, of every race and every hue.

By: Shawanda Smith
4/9/08 8-9