Despite entrenched Republican opposition he governed with dignity and competence. History will judge him a successFrom an Illinois state senator to a failed campaign for the House of Representatives,to a successful campaign to become a senator, to running and being elected the first African-American president of the United States, or one word has come to characterise Barack Obama: hope. Along with one phrase: “Yes we can.”So the question is,did hope materialise, and did “Yes we can” become “Yes we did”, and particularly with respect to race relations?When Trayvon Martin was shot dead by a volunteer vigilante,Obama said whether he had a son, ‘he would look like Trayvon' Related: How Barack Obama paved the way for Donald Trump | Gary Younge Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com