Sandile memela biography of barack

Barack Obama’s inauguration as president of the United States is “a giant leap for the black race,” said Michael John in Nigeria’s Daily Independent. For centuries, since the beginning of colonialism, the English language has used the word “black” to denote evil.

Sandile memela biography of barack

We call a bad person the “black sheep” of a group, and we say extortionists are practicing “blackmail.” When the stock market falls, we call the day “Black Friday.” Yet now a black man inhabits the seat of world power, the White House.

Other world leaders will find themselves deferring to a black man instead of the other way around. This could be “the ‘blackout’ for white prejudice.”

But don’t forget, Obama isn’t 100 percent black, said Sandile Memela in South Africa’s Mail & Guardian. He’s half white—what we in South Africa call mixed-race or “colored.” It may “sound a bi