Improving Our Community As African Americans Through Barack Obama

In America, racism is an issue that is clearly ignored and avoided. People are so focused on the minor issues; they do not look at what really matters. We try to cover up racism through subjects such as politics, businesses, and even in our public school system. This is a problem that continues to pull our communities apart. In  his speech, "A More Perfect Union", Barack Obama addresses, how our fights against each other are bringing us down as a country. We are so concentrated on the immature situations in this country that we have yet to come up with a solution to the major problem of racism. If that problem can be adjusted that would be a healthy start to our unified country. When we make certain decisions in life having to deal with racism and unity, we do not just affect ourselves, we affect America. America cannot be whole if the people are not whole. As African Americans, we so negatively complain about the problems we have with prejudice people or racists; that we never take the time to look for a solution to fix the predictament. Obama's entire speech was based on unity  and America coming together as one, but if we do not discuss our issues and actually come to a solution, then we will forever be stuck in the past. It takes more than one person to make change. As African Americans, we must first start this movement as an unselfish people. Then, we must allow ourselves to be open-minded. We cannot repeatedly have built up anger,"black anger", as the other races would say. We must try to work together with all races. Although things may not always go as planned, we must never give up. As a community, people have the power to make changes and this is our turn.



Works Cited:

Obama, Barack. "A More Perfect Union." National Constitution Center, Philadelphia.18 March 2008.Speech.