The United States of America had its first black president in the year 2008 and black people felt euphoric. We had the opportunity to feel what it was like to have one of our own in the White House and we had the opportunity to feel like our voices would finally be heard and our interests would finally be discussed. Whites have only known whites in the white house, they have only known what it’s like to see their own on television or hear their own on the radio or see their own in print. So for the first time in our history in this country, we had the opportunity to see that and even in that, we are still experiencing the lash of inequality that exists.
We must deal with things fairly, and then say you didn’t pull yourself up from your bootstrap in some cases it was stolen, it was given, it was awarded, it was appropriated, and you benefited from it.
