Barack Obama

Barack Obama is an excellent example of how race is starting to means less in modern America. 50 years ago it would be insane to have a black president, but in 2008 up to the present, Barack Obama has sat in office in America. Being the first black president makes him highly iconic to African Americans. He is an example of what you can achieve no matter your skin colour and that politics, economics and culture are not shaped about ideas of race.

He has been at the head of much change in America. He is the 44th and first African American president. During his first term in office he passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010. This was a massive change compared to the previously, very little help offered to the unemployed in America.

After his first term support for Obama did not change as he beat Romney but 90 electoral votes even with the opposition of states such as Texas and Oklahoma where white people take up most of the population. He has been on many headlines for his move for change in America. Obama will always be remembered for his work. He was the president that killed Bin Laden and the president that stood up against gun control in America.He has done so much that he will be remembered for and not just because of his skin colour. 

http://www.jstor.org/stable/41054118 

Just from this first page we see the massive impact that Obama's election had on the issue 
of race in america. Its says that the election unleashed optimism about the US' racial future 
and that it was a step away from the nations dark and brutal racial past.


To finish, Obama is just a prime example of what anyone can achieve, despite your race. He shows a changing America in all parts of society and how the issue of race is slowly becoming irrelevant. Barack Obama is the first black president, but I doubt he will be the last.