Most Americans would probably agree that President Elect Obama is the First Black President forgetting the fact that he is also Half White. Some historians would argue that there has been several prominent people in American History to proclaim to be the first Black President. However, that is not what this article is about.
It is about an event in History, which is probably not taught in school anymore, that planted the seed of freedom and after 143 years of slow and painful growth most Americans have finally put the hatred and bigotry of there Parents and/or Grandparents aside and voted in a Black President.
Although Obama, like most African Americans ,believe that his rise to the presidency was due to Martin Luther King, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. The truth is that he would have never even been a candidate had it not been for the three most important people in his life.
His Mother, who gave him life, his Grandmother, who raised him and Abraham Lincoln who abolished Slavery in 1865 after a very bloody Civil War that ended with the deaths of 600,00 plus soldiers combined. What is interesting about these three individuals is that all three are White.
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