It was Barrack Obama-the man , not the President of USA that won the Nobel Peace Prize

Barrack Obama the man well deserves the Noble Peace Prize.

United States of Ameruica is a fractured Nation- fractured between the Blacks , and the Whites. In to this fractured Nation was born on the 4 August, 1961, Barrack Obama, fathered by a black man and mothered by a white woman. As a child he went through all the rigors of a child of a mixed marriage. He suffered the separation of parents, and living with people who were not his.

Born into such circumstances, he has now paved the way for others of different communities born in to a same Nation to find their identity as members of the same Nation.

He set an example to those who fight for ethnic separation like the Tamils in Sri Lanka to understand, if they can use their intelligence more positively, that separation of minority communities from the majority is a disaster for the country and the nation. He showed that it is not by denouncing the majority, and claiming separate homelands and political settlements that they can achieve success, and make the country progress as a Nation. That itself makes him deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.

Barrack Obama made it crystal clear, that it is through accepting the majority, seeking integration as equals that the communal unity could be achieved and even a leader from a minority community could rise to hold the highest office as the President of the country.

The American blacks had been fighting for equal rights ever since slavery was abolished in America. Neither peaceful demonstrations nor aggressive opposition to the white American domination, found their acceptance and integration in to the white American Society.

The early negro American movement that started from narrow racial advancement within America took a new turn after the World War 2 with the American black leaders lending their support for the people of countries seeking independence from European colonialism and against America for supporting the Colonialists.

Subsequently they stopped their support for those seeking independence from colonialism to concentrate on a Civil Rights moment of the negro Americans. Many were the black Americans, such as Ella Baker, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, who became pioneers of the American Civil rights movement slowly but surely making cracks in the almost impenetrable wall of the American racial segregation.

In 1983 still a young man in his 20s awaiting graduation, Barrack Obama decided to become a community organiser. “…to mobilise the poor and giving back to the community.…… through organising , through shared sacrifice , ……….because this community I imagined was still in the making , built on the promise that the larger American community, black, white, and brown could somehow redefine itself- I believed that it might ,over time, admit the uniqueness of my own life…… This was my idea of organising”.

Thus he wrote in his book “ Dreams from My Father”. Having had no response to all the letters he wrote to civil rights organisations, councils and tenant rights groups, he decided to find conventional work for a short time before starting on his community projects.

Subsequently he found employment as a research assistant to a multinational corporation, the only Blackman in the company. He was accepted in the company and promoted to the post of a Financial writer. But the call to the service of the under privileged people of his community was greater and he gave up his promising job to become a community worker in Chicago “ a job closer to street”.

But soon he was out of a job, service to the community a distant dream. He wrote “……In six months I was broke ,unemployed , eating soup from a can.”

Finally he met people doing Community service, and met an Organiser who put him in charge to Organise the community of people in Altgeld Gardens Public Housing project. A place which had been abandoned due to bad sanitary conditions, and heavy, putrid odour emanating from a sewage treatment plant seeping through the windows of the residential buildings.

The Altgeld Gardens a housing complex, which was built to house affluent white Americans, after its abandonment became a dump to house the poor blacks away from white neighbourhoods. He worked with the people to improve their condition of living organising them into active working groups through the help of the Community Churches. He was undaunted by failures, not discouraged by the indifference and the surrender to poverty and hopelessness of life of the people whose lot he was trying to improve.

It was Barrack Obama, the man that gave himself to the upliftment of a community without anger, hatred, and aggresivity. He neither criticised the whites nor praised the blacks, but in silence with patience and hard work he brought a dim light to the darkness of the lives of those with whom he worked. He gradually moved into politics not for his self aggrandisement but for the sake of other, where he thought he would be better placed to help the disadvantaged communities.

He did not follow his erstwhile elders, to manifest against the whites and their racial regimes. But he worked in friendly cooperation with the his black community as well as the white community. He was able, through peace and friendly contact break communal barrier, first to become a Senator, and then to become the President of the whole of America of the Blacks, and the Whites.

He surprised the world and then won the affection of all Nations. And to-day he is still working hard for the welfare of the poor, coordinate the rich to make America, and then the world a better place for every one to live without fear of natural disasters, economic upheavals, or the perils of a nuclear war.

To what extent he will be successful only the future will tell. But still there are the whites who dislike him despite what he is, there are nations who pay no attention to what he proposes.

But a day will come when his peaceful ways, patience ,and unflustered acceptance of criticism pay dividends and he will be able to make of America a country dedicated to peace and service of man.

Barack Obama- this man who brought so much of change to himself, and change of the attitude of the American people as a Nation, deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.

Robert O. Blake, a vestige of the Bush Administration contradicts President Obama’s statement to the UN General Assembly, and promotes ethnic segregation in Sri Lanka.

Robert O’Blake US Assistant Secretary of State for Asian and Central Asian Affairs, is not promoting the USA President Barrack Obama’s foreign policies. In the 38 minutes long speech to the UN General Assembly the USA President made significant statements. But O’Blake is making a mockery of President Obama’s Foreign Policies

President Obama said, “I took office at a time when many around the world had come to view America with skepticism and distrust. Part of this was due to misperceptions and misinformation about my country. Part of this was due to opposition to specific policies, and a belief that on certain critical issues, America has acted unilaterally, without regard for the interests of others. And this has fed an almost reflexive anti-Americanism, which too often has served as an excuse for collective inaction.”

But his speech to the UN General Assembly is contradicted by his own Assistant Secretary of State for Asia Robert O’Blake , who comes from the Bush Administration ,which as the US President said was viewed with scepticism and distrust, and has not changed in keeping with the President Obama’s above statement to which he added that, “ the time has come for the world to move in a new direction”.

O’Blake still carries out the foreign policies of pre-Obama Administration that the President Obama says , “….. has acted unilaterally, without regard for the interests of others. And this has fed an almost reflexive anti-Americanism, which too often has served as an excuse for collective inaction “.

O’Blake was a sympathiser of the Sri Lanka terrorists, therefore despite the President Barrack Obama’s efforts to change America’s unpopular image, O’Blake leaving aside President Obama’s hope to move in a new direction, continues his vendetta against Sri Lanka for the elimination of his friends the Sri Lanka terrorists.

For it is now known that the terrorist leader Prabhakaran pushed by the Government Forces into a small sliver of land between the sea and the Mulativu lagoon, was awaiting to be rescued by the American Forces by a commando operation.

David Miliband, Bernard Kouchner and Hillary Clintons friend Conrad Bildt was trying to negotiate with the Government of Sri Lanka for a ceasefire to enable them to enter the no-fire zone, probably to arrange the rescue operation of the terrorist leaders.

Having failed in that endeavour now the West is all out to take revenge from the Government of Sri Lanka by moves to accuse the Armed Forces for violation of human rights and war crimes.

O’Blake’s report to the US Congress with damning condemnation of the Government of Sri Lanka, and the European Unions refusal to grant Sri Lanka G+ Concessions for export of garments are the aftermath of this failure on their part to rescue the terrorists as they may probably had secretly promised to do.

While the US President tells the UN General Assembly, that “America has acted unilaterally, without regard for the interests of others. And this has fed an almost reflexive anti-Americanism, ……. “, O’Blake his Assistant Secretary of State for Asian Affairs” following that blameful tradition acts, “…. Unilaterally without regard for for the interest of others” submitting a report to the US Congress against Sri Lanka without giving Sri Lanka its right of being heard before such a critical report is submitted to the US Congress.

The President Obama said, “ no one nation can or should try to dominate another nation”. But this statement seems to have no significance to Robert O’Blake who had through out his mission as the US Ambassador for Sri Lanka, had denigrated the Government of Sri Lanka criticising her actions even from public rostrums in South India during the heat of a determining military operations against terrorists, and continues all possible methods to discredit the Government of Sri Lanka.

O’Blake in “power” bestowed upon him by the Obama Administration takes Sri Lanka for a vassal state. He consults expatriate Tamils in America some of who have not even put their foot in Sri Lanka for many decades, and well known local anti-Government elements such as Pakiasothy Saravanamuttu and Jehan Perera, about matters concerning Sri Lanka rather than have direct consultations with the leaders of the Government of Sri Lanka.

The President Obama continuing his speech to the UN General Assembly said , “Now, like all of you, my responsibility is to act in the interest of my nation and my people, and I will never apologize for defending those interests.” Sri Lanka respectfully accepts President Obama’s responsibility to his people. But that responsibility should be the same when it comes to a President of any developing country, even that of Sri Lanka .

The right of the President of Sri Lanka to act in the interest of his country and his people cannot also be questioned least of all by the President Obama’s Assistant Secretary of State Robert O’Blake, as the President of Sri Lanka as Much as, the President Obama of USA, should not apologize to any one for defending those interests..

In the light of seemingly candid statement of President Obama’s speech we question him whether such responsibility is reserved only to America , and whether the President of a developing country has to “ apologize for defending interests of his nation and his people”. President Obama’s principles are respectfully taken note of, but he should, demand his Assistant Secretary of State Robert O’Blake to extend that honourable principles of his in dealing with other Presidents of developing nations-such as Sri Lanka.

President Obama gives the World of Nations hope when he says, “We know the future will be forged by deeds and not simply words. Speeches alone will not solve our problems -- it will take persistent action.” But there is a difference with his speech and the actions of his subordinate the Assistant Secretary of State Robert O’Blake, who seems to have not understood President Obama’s policies and principles in dealing with other Sovereign States.

What Rober O’Blake refuses to understand or does not seem to have understood is that which triumphed in America with the election of an Afro American as the President was the integration of the black minority community into the majority white community.

Robert Blake is aware that in 1950’ s America still practiced segregation of the black Americans, treating them no better than animals, not allowing them to sit in the same row of seats in buses, not serving them in restaurants reserved for the whites, not allowing black children to walk into a sweet shop to buy sweets. Robert O’Blake is well aware that in America the blacks were lynched, burnt alive or hanged by the notorious Ku Klux Klan merely for their being “black”.

In that American past notoriety, the election of an Afro American of the then segregated black Community as the 44^th President of USA was the greatest historically meaningful American triumph . Then why should Robert O’Blake the US Assistant Secretary of State for Asian Affairs promote segregation of the minority Tamil Community in Sri Lanka, calling for a political separation of the Tamil Community from the Majority Community.

If Robert O’Blake has really understood the significance of swearing in of the 44^th President of the USA on the memorable 21 January,2009, he would not have given into the unpatriotic Tamil Expatriate Community, to promote ethnic separation in Sri Lanka. He should have instead advised them to encourage the Tamil Community in Sri Lanka to integrate or coordinate with the Majority Sinhala Community to forge a larger United Nation of Sri Lankans, where there is no separate identities of the minority, and the majority.

None of the Governments of Sri Lanka nor the people of the Majority Community –the Sinhala practiced segregation against the minority Tamil Community as it was practiced by the American Governments and the American White population to the Afro American Community. In that context Robert O’Blake is a “nasty American” promoting ethnic segregation in Sri Lanka.

Finally the President Obama said, “Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect. Each country will pursue a path rooted in the culture of its people and in its past traditions…….”

It is good that every one in the American State Department and the Members of the US Congress understand this truth. In this respect what USA and the EU and the rest of the Western Developed countries should realise is that for true democracy to prevail in the world, the rich countries should make a sincere effort to help those countries who need help to rise above their under development.

Such help should not be made conditional making those countries subordinate their Sovereignty to the donors, but allow them to develop their countries independently according to their own “culture and past traditions”.

The common practice of America and the European Union withholding aid and assistance or imposing trade embargo amounts to “black mailing “those developing Nations and halt their development. The rich countries should allow progress and development in those countries to continue while disputes and disagreements are settled separately through dialogue.

We fervently hope that the US President Barrack Obama will not fail to convert his words to reality with persistent action, as he said, “We know the future will be forged by deeds and not simply words. Speeches alone will not solve our problems -- it will take persistent action.” Those persistent actions should not be to the benefit of America, and its friendly European States but to all Nations of the world without distinction.

YouTube - Pres. Obama Address to Congress

YouTube - Pres. Obama Address to Congress

YouTube - 1/17/09 Barack Obama BALTIMORE SPEECH PART 2

YouTube - 1/17/09 Barack Obama BALTIMORE SPEECH PART 2

Barrack Obama- symbolises the universal equality of all human beings.

In three days the most unexpected, but most significant event in the world which we await with joy in our hearts will be enacted.

It was way back in 1600 that slavery began in America, until it was abolished in 1865 by the President Abraham Lincoln. It was the most inhuman form of injustice committed by man against man.

A slave was a chattel to be used in whatever way it pleased the owner. In America black skin took away the dignity and human respect, in a society created by the immigrant whites in a country that did not even belonged to them or their fore fathers.

They were the slaves pushed in to the back ground by their white masters. They did not have the right to walk on the same pavements, walked on by the whites, sit on the same raw of seats meant for the white in buses, eat in the same restaurants where the whites were served. They were lynched and burnt alive by the most ruthless human monsters of the Ku Klux Klan, who believed in a land of white supremacy.

When the Slave Trade was abolished in 1807, the British continued with their inhuman trade. The British ships caught in the act of carrying their despicable human cargo, were fined at the rate of £100 for each slave. When the British ships with human cargo were likely to be caught, the Captain of the Ship got the slaves thrown into the sea to reduce the amount of fine they would have to pay.

Abraham Lincoln wanted to put an end to slavery and issued the emancipation proclamation in 1863.


The 13th amendment to the Constitution abolishing Slavery was passed in the Congress of the USA on the 31 January, 1865 and ratified on the 6 December, 1865.



However, a man with a dark skin was still not equal to one with a white skin.

Many coloured people were brutally killed in trying to assert their rights as citizens of the United States of America. It will take a long time, some thought, that the image of a black as inferior to a white, to disappear. Many a great black leaders gave their lives in their effort to make the black Americans to be accepted as equals with those with a white skin. Martin Luther King was one of the greatest of them, who was assassinated for seeking equality with the white Americans.



Things began to change gradually , the blacks forging their way into different section of the American Society. Finally on the 4 November,2008, the American people elected the black American Presidential Candidate of the Democratic Party to be the next President.

On the historic day of 21 January,2009, Barrack Obama, a black man from Chicago, a son of a black Kenyan and a white American will be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America.



Thus, for the first time in the history of the United State of America, and 135 years after the abolition of Slavery by the President Abraham Lincoln an American Man with a Black Skin becomes the President of United States of America.
He brings hope not only to America, but also to the whole world that human beings will not be treated differently any more, for the colour of their skin, for the difference of their class, caste, or religion.