Obama, T'Challa, and Black People in America
The day after Barak Obama became president, something happened to me, and I believe to many black people in America. I remember looking out of my window, and the world literally and physically looking like a new world. I can't stress this enough. The way I literally saw the physical world, with my physical eyes, completely changed. I've had that feeling many times before...like when I went to Israel, or to London, or the Philippines. The feeling you get when you are seeing a world completely new and unlike your home. Having Barak Obama as president of the United States felt literally like living in a new and foreign country. I'm not saying that I, or black people in general, agree with everything that came out of the man's mouth or head. I'm saying he embodied something we needed to see and experience. He symbolized something. So does T'Challa in the movie "The Black Panther." If you put aside all of the so called political issues ra...
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