After President Obama won the election, I begin to see a lot of pictures of him in stores (mainly bodegas). I thought this was something to photograph and still think it is something to photograph.
I can not remember seeing pictures of presidents in the corner stores since I’ve been living in New York.
This store has a black and white photo of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, President Obama, and Malcolm X.
I find this odd. Unthinkable for a German like me to have a picture of Angela Merkel somewhere in a store or in a home. Anybody who would do this would be considered weird. And you said it was not common with all the previous US presidents either.
So why now, why with this guy?
I used to think race doesn’t matter here. But I was wrong, I guess.
So after all these promisses of “hope and change” 3 years ago – what did actually get changed (for the better, I mean)? Are you still hoping, and if yes, for what?
I really don’t understand this whole bohay about this guy. Just because he has a darker skin he is special? That is what I’d call racism! Why is it OK for one group to be racist but not for another?
Maybe you have to be born and raised in this country to understand that. I certainly don’t get that. But since I can’t vote anyway, I guess it doesn’t really matter what I think.
I wouldn’t call hanging a picture of the president in a store racism. I think a lot of store owners were encouraged by President Obama’s speeches as he was running for office and moved by his diction. I think him winning did something to their spirit and made them feel happy to be in America at that time.
And as far as if race matters or not, Race always matters in America whether people say it does or not.
And me, I am always hoping. But my hope is never in man, always in God.
Th election of President Obama put an end to the elections of a single nationality that had been going on for over 230 years.
He was the sign that ‘minorities’ can actually be represented in the American government. It also takes a look at American history in the view of Black Americans to understand the renewed hope of all multicultural Americans.