Barack Obama is now “The Man”
President Obama and first family
Some years ago I remember being on a plane coming back from the States and watching a movie about a black man becoming President of the United States.
The name of the movie if my memory serves me correctly was “The man” it starred either James Earl Jones or Paul Winfield.
I searched and googled assiduously to find the movie so I can present it to you to illustrate my point but to no avail. I am convinced because of its subject matter there has been a strategic and deliberate effort to remove it from the records.
The plot of “The Man” was what happened when the President of the United States was shot and the vice who was black became the President.
Notice I said that the black man started out by being vice, not even in fiction it was not fathomable that a black man could be elected to be President of the United States.
As of this morning that has changed, from today the 5th of November 2008 the unthinkable, and perceived impossible has occurred, fiction has become fact and Barack Obama has become the 44th President of the United States of America.
What does this mean to black people in United Sates and throughout the world? I got a call from my friend Ian who said that blacks would now be getting better roles in movies. Will the incidents of Police officers shooting blacks unfairly in the U.S cease? Will Michael Jackson change back his skin colour?
Speculation on the future should not detract from the historical significance of this moment.
Let us rejoice that fact has become fiction and we now have a black President of the United States of America.
Barack Obama is now “The Man” !
* Since I wrote above post my friend Jdid in his comment identified that “The Man” was a 1972 movie starring James Earl Jones, some people would think that it was a display of igrunce I could not find the movie while Jdid did, I know the truth is the FBI read my post and put back the movie info where it could be found, its a conspiracy, heres the poster to the movie… and in it Jones was secretary of state not Vice President…
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November 5th, 2008 at 9:08 am
lol @ michael good question though…we’ll have to wait and see..anyways I personally am proud of Obama’s achievement as i’m sure are the many black people of the world. But I also was interested last night the point political analyst Peter Wickham raised..it was some where along the lines of black people(in america) no long can come with the age old cry of being oppressed as Obama has pretty much erased that factor. So I wonder what we going to cry about now? That’s over and although noone wants to really say its a race thing it still feels good as a people to know that a black person is going to run on of the most powerful( if not the most) nations in the world. CONGRATS TO OBAMA!
(honestly i still believe if it wasn’t Obama against McCain he still wouldn’t have won..look like he did gin cry…)
November 5th, 2008 at 10:31 am
obama the man. despite all the dirty politics, the claims he’s a comunist and a socialist and in bed with terrorists and a muslim and the anti-christ he still won.
Regarding “the MAN” its a 1972 movie with James Earl Jones
November 5th, 2008 at 11:20 am
jdid, if future elections play dirty i guess those politicians haven’t learned anything from Obama’s campaign
peter, somehow i am not surprised of the outcome being that i was following this very closely ever since the campaign trail started, but what i never expected was the landslide victory in electoral votes
November 6th, 2008 at 9:31 am
This is a tremendous day for black people all over the world. This victory is for Abraham Lincoln, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr, Medgar Evers, and countless unknown civil rights activists who died for the cause. It was only a little over 40 years ago that blacks were being killed for trying to vote.
It was also amazing to see the entire world celebrating the end of the Bush era. I never though I’d live to see the day the USA had a black president. God’s name be praised!
November 7th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Some men are the pioneers for others to follow and sometimes these men make the way easier for those behind them. Well this gentleman’s attitude made it so easy for me to see others in his footsteps and I watched how he was able, not only to command Whites but to receive their full cooperation. I think he made the possibility of Blacks attaining higher office, a greater possibility
The First Black President
Their politics never really interest me
Had no appeal till I saw him on TV
Every night he was on I was stuck like glue
First Black President was like an amazing guru
I saw him firm yet calm and pleasing to the eye
Risky and calculative, an intriguing guy
Showed knowledge that surprised many a man
This President gives his all when ever he can
Black men never before had this distinction
Laughable when thought of, even an abomination
All the Whites before, believed we could never lead
Couldn’t rise to the top or get the votes we would need
Kept us down by convincing us this was true
President, ha ha! They laugh then we would too
Regardless to our intellect we never thought that we’d
Ever become President so we never sowed that seed
So when I saw him standing there erect
In the spotlight, the White House and the No.1 Jet
Dreams were made possible, I could now picture
Easier roads to the Presidency in my brother’s future
Now Whites see the validity and were inspired by Jack
“The Man,” President David Palmer in 24 was the pioneer Black
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November 8th, 2008 at 10:42 am
OBAMA OBAMA OBAMA
November 8th, 2008 at 10:42 am
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November 15th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Peter - ya 4get Chris Rock with “Head Of State” from 2003 and back in 1997 there was Tommy “Tiny” Lister in “Fifth Element” as President Lindberg which was set in 23rd Century
November 20th, 2008 at 5:11 am
thanks for the movie info airbourne, the thing about chris rock in head os state is its comedic perspective did not take the subject of a blackman being president seriously,
i did see the fifth element but i dont remember the character, that was with bruce willis right? dont think the subject matter was there was a black president, the thing about the man was that was the main theme, a serious look on what might happen if a black man were president of the united states
thanks for commenting every body