Would Crispus Attucks be proud of Obama?
Is your question designed to show your erudition or to point out the earliest involvement of black men in the politics in this country? Of course most black Americans could not help being proud of Barack Obama. Even 50 years ago, most Americans would have found it inconceivable that a Black man could ever become President of the United States. Being old enough to remember separate washrooms and routinely hearing adult blacks in a subservient capacity called “girls” and “boys” I find it amazing. You realize that he could not have won if he were some black panther radical type or rapper, instead of a black man without a heavy accent, who has degrees from Harvard and taught law at University of Chicago. He also has included a large number of white staffers and cabinet members. He is in there because his government has little racial identification and has a pretty conventional Democratic Party program and ties. But as he said “those of you who didn’t vote for me – I will be your President
