Barack Obama: White House’s First Black Boss

By Christopher Ambe Shu

The mistaken belief or myth held by so many, for many years, that the White House, official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States of America in Washington DC, is kind of reserved only for whites has been demystified
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Tuesday ,November 4, saw the overwhelming election of 47-year-old Barack Obama(Pictured), son of a father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, as the 44th president of the US.

Obama, because of his intelligence, eloquence and well- articulated plans to improve the lot of American people as a whole, made millions upon millions of people, even enemies of the US, during his presidential campaigns to prefer him to his rival, John Mac Cain in the White House.

The US with a population of some 300 million people and 51 states, is the world’s most powerful and prominent nation. Its president is arguably the commander- chief the whole world.

Joel Hilliker,a columnist with theTrumpet.com in the introduction of his article before the US presidential election, titled “If the World Could Vote for America’s President,” said this about the global love for Barack Obama: “The whole world doesn’t agree on much, but it seems pretty united on one thing: that the next American president should be Barack Obama”.
Of course, the columnist cited reasons for the global Obama-love.

And at last, Obama has emerged victorious at the 2008 US presidential election, securing 364 electoral votes while rival John McCain got 163.Ties, 11.There are a total of 538 electoral votes and to be elected president, one must have at least 270 electoral votes

Obama, a first term senator from Illinois and Democratic Presidential Candidate by far beat his Republican rival, 72-year-old John McCain to get the country’s highest office.

John McCain quickly conceded defeat and telephoned Obama to congratulate him .He also urged Americans to unite and support the new president

In his victory speech, an elated but determined Obama told Americans: Change has come.

Mark Z. Barabak, writing in Los Angeles Times on November 5, said Obama’s “victory was a leap in the march toward equality: When Obama was born, people with his skin color could not even vote in parts of America, and many were killed for trying.”

So Obama is seen as having courageously broken racial barriers that have existed for donkey years to become the first African-American President, something many thought was imposibilty.
Black Obama’s occupancy of the White House stresses the fact that in God’s world everything happens when it is supposed to- no matter what. The Bible book of Ecclesiastes (chapter three) tells us that, “There is time for everything”

That also reminds us of the saying that change is the only thing on earth that is constant. Simply put, no condition is permanent. Obama was conscious of all these, and fought relentlessly despite the high odds to land the highest office in the US

White House, Black Obama.What a good color blend!

Watching Obama on BBC (television) make his victory speech, I saw tears rolling down the cheeks of Jessie Jackson, one of America’s Black Civil Rights leaders. Many others were in tears .Certainly, they were tears of joy, or tears of a dream come true.

Perserverance, handwork and prayers have in the past guided determined Africans, if you care Black men considered by many whites as inferior race, to win historic elections where many did not dream could happen

Consider 1994.In this year, Nelson Mandela who had been in prison for over 26 years because of his fight for Human Rights Promtion, became South Africa's first black president after more than three centuries of white rule.

“Never, never again will this beautiful land experience the oppression of one by another”, Mandela had vowed in his speech

Also think of Kofi Annan, of Ghana, who became the first black UN secretary-general, serving from 1997 to 2006

Indeed,the leadership ability of the Blackman is being gradually,but globally recognized