Sunday, February 24, 2019
A More Perfect Union
In the remarks on A More finished Union Senator Barack Obama discusses the issue of race identity in terms of American society. Barack Obama describes his life stressing the role the race has played in his life. It is known that if Obama wins Presdiential elections, he will become the first Afro-American president in the US history.Obama touches the questions of bondage, declaration of license in Philadelphia and origins of democracy in America. Declaration of independence in Philadelphia played crucial role in promoting democracy as farmers, scholars, patriots and statement were provided with opportunity to express their negative attitude towards slavery, discrimination, tyranny and inequality.Declaration of independence became the first step on the long road to democracy, freedom, liberty and frequent human rights. (Obama, 2008)Through struggles and protests, through civil disobedience and civil war, American citizens do a successful attempt to narrow the gap between vacate words and reality of the time they lived in.Therefore, the most important idea of the barbarism is that all citizens of the United States should be provided with full rights and obligations despite their color, religious preferences and beliefs.Obama says that US Constitution is the ideal for citizens as it ensures their legal rights, and opportunities. It is Constitution that promises all citizens liberty, freedom, nicety and union. Obama adds that union should be perfected with time.Therefore, Obama views the task of his campaign as sensation which will continue the long march of to more just, equal, free American nation. Obama says that he decided to run for presidency as he believed that challenges couldnt be overcome unless they were solved together and unless the union was perfected. (Obama, 2008)Obama stresses that we have divers(prenominal) hopes, but all of us are striving for better afterlife sharing similar hopes. Obama argues that we whitethorn not look the same an d we may not have come from the same place, but we all wish to move in the same direction towards a better early for of children and our grandchildren. (Obama, 2008) Obamas beliefs, according to his words, are rooted in his own story. Obama tells he is the son of a black man and white woman from Kansas.Obamas grandfather survived Depression and helped to raise Obama. Obama says he visited the best schools in American, and, at the same time, lived in one of the poorest nations. She is married to an African-American women and blood of slavery flowed within them. Obamas life story has taught him that a nation isnt simply a sum of genetic make-ups. Instead, nation is sharing parking area hopes and prospects for better future.Obama says that racial tensions are seen in all spheres of life. Even he is often labeled as too black or not black enough. In South Carolina there are powerful coalitions of African-Americans and white Americans. Blacks and whites are equally offended and it s hould be stopped. Obama shares his experiences at trio.He says that Trinity is embodiment of African-American community as similar to other African-American churches Trinity offers services which are full of bawdy humor and continuant laughter. Obama says that Trinitys church is full of dancing, shouting and clapping, as well(p) as it combines kindness and cruelty, struggles and success, intelligence and ignorance, love and bitterness, etc. All these components institute the experience of Africans in America. (Obama, 2008)
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