Blog Post #1 Life After the Obama Administration
Three events in the past decade that crushed the hope Obama gave us Official White House picture taken by Pete Souza, Sept. 11, 2009. President Barack Obama sits in a meeting about economic issues in the Roosevelt Room. After watching and discussing "White Like Me," a film written and produced in 2013 while President Barack Obama was still in office, I realized how different the overall demeanor of our society truly is now than it was. Throughout this blog, I will give just a few of the countless examples of events that indeed prove that America is not the perfect example of antiracism that people hoped it would be after Obama's election. #1 George Floyd's Murder On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was arrested and killed by police after allegedly using counterfeit money to pay at a convenience store in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A bystander videoed the incident and published the video online, which went ...