Perfect Union the Newly Elected

¶ … Perfect Union

The newly elected U.S. president, Barack Obama, has raised a lot of controversy around him at the time that he chose to candidate for the U.S. presidency. Because of his skin color, he did not seem to be a viable candidate, but, as the campaign went on, he proved to have a lot of supporters, both black and white. As is it normal to happen during an election, some divisive events of Obama's background started to emerge and to create tension in the democratic camp. Feeling he had to stop people from creating a false image about him in their heads, Obama had created a speech in which he promoted equality between humans with no regard to their ethnicity, skin color, religion, or gender.

Barack Obama's speech "A More Perfect Union" has been first given in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on a Tuesday, March 18, 2008, at the Constitution Center. The text is argumentative and it is intended to change people's former opinions regarding their traditional racist nature.

The text is typical for a man that whishes to change ideologies that have lasted for hundreds of years and that whishes to demonstrate the fact that transformation is possible. The reason for why it is clear that Obama believes in his words is that one can observe his speech to be different from one of a demagogue. A demagogue is ready to guarantee the fact that he will change everything, and that people will live a happy life under his government. Obama however, does not guarantee anything, as he simply explains that people are the only ones capable of making a change.

During his speech, Obama does not attempt to deny the fact that he admires his former reverend. However, he clearly puts in plain words the fact that he does not favor the reverend's extremely racist beliefs.

In general, the text is intended to emphasize Obama's beliefs relating to discrimination in the U.S. And its history.

More Perfect Union" has come mainly as a mean to prevent any more racism from taking place in the U.S. Another reason for why the speech has been created is that Obama has wished to counter-attack the potential accusations that he would support the racist beliefs of his former reverend.

The racist issue is and has been a very notorious topic in the U.S. ever since the white people have set foot on American soil. The whites have constantly pushed the Native Americans towards the west until all of the former Indian Territory had been conquered. Consequent to this, masses of black people had been brought in from Africa to serve as slaves. The black people had not been considered worthy of living a life similar to that lived by normal whites. After the Civil War had brought an end to slavery matters seemed to have calmed. In spite of the fact that the blacks became free men, racism appeared to have no ending with too many whites still keeping their anti-black beliefs. White racist people have since regarded any non-white person residing in the U.S. As a potential criminal.

Several attempts have been made in order to change people's opinions and to make all the people in the U.S. And in the whole world feel and act equal. Such attempts have been made so that people would no longer differentiate their fellow humans because of morally wrong reasons.

Barack Obama is the 44th U.S. president and the first Afro-American person to have ever been in charge of the U.S. office. His career previous to his designation as U.S. president is filled with achievements which have made him a feasible nominee for the office.

During his campaign, Obama has been put to test when he had been reported to have attended a church that had reverend expressing extremist racist thoughts. During his speech from the 18th of March, 2008, he chose to relate to the issue. He declared that he did not express the same beliefs as his former reverend. However, he had also claimed that he did not blame the reverend for his speeches because of the fact that it had been society that had led him to racism.

The main idea that Obama is meaning to address and condemn during his speech is racism. Furthermore, he is proposing methods of annihilating racism and making the U.S. A better place for its citizen to live in.