I was just thinking about this. Instead of looking up to 50cent, Pdiddy, and Jay Z who promote a thug edge to their image of intelligence, namely on the business side. Many young brothas can drop their thug side and just be intelligent. They can be proud to be smart and realize it is cool being who they are without the thug pose baggage.
Yeah, because White kids look up to whoever the president is
. The bottom line is that kids have always looked up to athletes and entertainers, Black & White.
White boys don't sit around speaking of George Bush, like they're in awe of him. Most Amerikkkan kids don't even know who the president and vice president is.
Their role models will not change. In Amerikkka, just like damn near every other country of the world, David Beckham, Tiger Woods, Britney Spears, and Michael Jordan are going to still be role models.
Without going into his policies all i can say is that the world will look at the black man a little different.
We are portrayed in the media all over the world of only being capable of being athletes and entertainers.
I think it will be a psychological boost for little black (and for that matter all minorites) girls and boys. They will see that the most powerful man in the world and his family looks like them and their family.
Uh. . . . I don't know if that will change all that much. I mean, the crackheads, drug dealers, rappers, pimps, and everybody else will still be the ones they see every day.
I'm noticing a trend here.
All of the responses have been race-related.
Having a Black man acheive the highest office in America would indeed be great. Young brothers and sisters having something they can look up to outside of rappers and athletes would be great.
But is that all his victory would be worth?
Pretty much. Black Amerikkka's problems have never been lack of "role-models". It's been worse schools, lesser job opportunities, and corruption on the part of our local elected officials, and and most of all corporate Amerikkka that continues to operate within the good ole boy network. If those factors don't change, then nothing changes. The idea that people will treat me differently because of Obama is ludicrous. White people who turn on Oprah and worship everything that comes out of that womans mouth, see me and cross the street, why? Because I'm not Oprah. Oprah, just like Jordan, Colin Powell, and Obama aren't seen as "like the rest of us", that's why White people can accept them. We already know that select few of us can be accepted. Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice are accepted.
If Obama gets the nomination and is elected President I don't see where I would be directly affected. Indirectly yes, like when Bush took office we suddenly began paying excessive amounts of money for gas.
Direct effect no, Obama is not the messiah chosen to lead us black people to the promised land. He will be the President and will have to address world issues. He will also spend much of his term trying to correct and change the mess Bush/Cheney has created over the last 8 years. His goal will be to change the direction from where this country is headed.
Exactly. Finally, somebody with sense. He'll spend his term digging us out of the mess that Bush made, and then you'll see gradual changes based on his policies, like in say 3 or 4 years, but there wont be a scenario in which Obama takes office and no drugs are bought, nobody gets shot, the police stop harrassing us, and the media's gonna yank 50 Cent and Souljah Boy off the air in order to only show "positive" portrayals of Black people. That's not how it works people.
