Turn on your television and you’ll hear the same thing I’m hearing. Black men and women talking about how their whole lives they’ve been told what they can’t do, what they can’t be, what society won’t let them become. Now, with the election of Barack Obama, Blacks are beginning to realize that they can succeed, that a nation of whites and Hispanics and Asians and mixes of every kind, came together to elect a black man. Middle-Aged Blacks are speaking out about how their parents and their grandparents had often lamented how Blacks are never given a fair shake, held down and oppressed by a Racist America. What all these parents and grandparents had in common, however, was that they were black. It wasn’t White people telling them what they couldn’t do, what they couldn’t be, what society would not let them become.
It was blacks.
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