gangreen
Top Notch
Especially at the 4:08 mark
. The magic of that campaign
. And the satisfaction on that night
.I came home from college just to watch the results with the fam.
Where were yall at on election night 2008.
I Still Get Chills From This Video Till This Day
- Thread starter gangreen
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Especially at the 4:08 mark
. The magic of that campaign
. And the satisfaction on that night.I came home from college just to watch the results with the fam.
Where were yall at on election night 2008.
Doobie Doo
Veteran
This keeps in the American tradition that if a whole bunch of us are crying and celelbrating something it's usually bad for us in the long run
Especially at the 4:08 mark
The magic of that campaign
I came home from college just to watch the results with the fam.
Where were yall at on election night 2008.
LuckyLibra619
Banned
I was 17 when Obama came into office, I'm 25 now. I remember being so hype that we had a Black President. The older I got though the more I realized nothing was really changing for Black people in this country. I've reached the point where I can't figure out why Black people love this dude so much. What has Obama specifically done for Black people that makes the majority of us love this man? I need answers.
Kyle Barker
Superstar
Him being the first Black President means nothing to Black people? What were you expecting him to do for us when he got elected?
LuckyLibra619
Banned
I honestly thought life would radically change for Blacks under Obama, I was naive because I was a youngin at the time. But with that being said I still can't think of anything he specifically did for us that would make us love him this much. I'm not going to love the guy and go hard for him just because he's Black (I don't even consider him Black, he's biracial. But that is a topic for another conversation).
I get what you are saying but look at it from this perspective:
1/3 of your life you have seen the highest office in our country occupied by someone who looks like you (I know it's the coli and he's only 1/2 black blah blah blah) I know it may not seem like a big deal at all (policy aside) but that is a little tidbit of what our great grand parents (and my grandparents) probably never thought they would see.
I was in college 21/22 when he got elected and though little has "changed" the fact that the first family looked like this
is inspiring in itself.
Neil Tyson
YYZ
If you can't find anything inspiring about this man or his family then nobody can help you. Get off your ass like he did.
For a lot of people, just having someone they feel they can relate to, in the highest position in office in the US means a lot. For the elders in my family, those that came up during the civil rights period, they never thought they'd live to see the day a black man held office. For a lot of people, just the fact that the first family is black, means a lot in itself.
Now if you understand anything about the presidents position, common sense would tell you thinking things would drastically chance, especially for us(blacks) under his watch would be being nieve, the office doesn't hold that amount of power.
However, I'll take the last 8 years of Obama, even at this point, than 8 years of McCain.
|r|e|a|d|
Hail!!
That day, shyt that whole election cycle will always be surreal to me. The day he gave that "more perfect union" speech was the day I found out wifey was preggers, when the election results came out and he gave his acceptance speech shorty goes into labor few hours later my first born son came into the world. Shyt still kinda gets me choked up
Shyt still kinda gets me choked up
LuckyLibra619
Banned
So basically we're acknowledging that he didn't really do anything for us but we just love him because he's "Black"? Cool.
Neil Tyson
YYZ
Run for local office lets see how you do.
