Category: The Obama Files

Reflections on the first black president of the United States, as seen through the eyes of a black American born five months after President Barack Obama.

Still in good hands

Obama Time magazine

“Thank you, every single dead soul who endured unimaginable hardship to make [Barack Obama’s] historic inauguration day possible. The Africans who were kidnapped from their villages, marched across Africa, ferried across the sea, unloaded off the ships and sold into a life of slavery in America, those Africans are all dead; but they’re descendants are now in good hands, and life is only going to get better from here to eternity.”