There Won't be another Black President in America

It was a quirk of fate that propelled Barack Obama as President of the United States of America. I am afraid there won't be another black president.  Obama became president  without majority support of the white community. The whites never expected he would become president and when he became president, it was a Teutonic shock for them, at least the majority.

What is the reason the whites never accepted him as one of them? The fact that he is Afro American went against him. His good work like not starting a fresh war, normalisation of relations with Cuba, war on terror , Obamacare among others were trashed. It was made out that he was the worst president America had. In reality he brought a lot of pragmatism to the presidency. He did in a way change the perception of America abroad. Unfortunately it did not gel with the whites.

On my visit to America, I found the Blacks and Latinos rooting for Obama but only a small minority  of whites felt Obama was a success.  To talk of  America as a land of opportunity must thus be taken with a pinch of salt.

Herman Cain Could have Made History

America has turned turtle since the early fifties. One could never think of a US President whose roots were colored, but it happened as Barack Obama became president of the USA. The last election threw up an interesting possibility, where there could have been a clash of two coloreds fighting for the top post. This is just hypothetical now, but when I think about it does intrigue me.

 The man who had challenged Obama was Herman Cain a black with roots in the slave plantations of the Deep South as nominee for President of the Republicans. Cain was born in in 1945 and has had a checkered career with a stint in the Navy as civil employee.

In the primaries in October the year of the election Cain had surged ahead. In case he had won and been nominated it would have meant two blacks fighting for the post of the Chief Executive of the most powerful nation on earth.
 Cain is a Baptist and unlike Obama has no connection with Islam. He is American in every aspect and married with 3 children and 2 grandchildren.  But I am afraid he blew his chances away forever by allegations of sexual misconduct.

Unfortunately Cain’s philandering caught up with him and he had to scratch from the race. But all said and done it was a far cry from the days when the dreaded white supremacy organizations like the KKK were running amuck and hunting Blacks like animals.

Lastly Cain in a response to Obamas state of the Union address delivered his speech at the National Press Club. The speech was telecast live on the Tea Party Express website. Cain referred to Obama's address as a "hodgepodge of liberal ideas," adding that there were "no big ideas that would impact job growth" and "no big ideas that would stimulate economic growth in this country".

^{Would Cain have been a better Black President?}