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.