Barrack Obama

So I'm sitting here looking at a photo gallery of President Obama's meteoric rise to the White House and it hits me! While looking at the pictures I started to remember the sentiments expressed during the primary to the campaign and ultimately down to election night. Since Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize people have been asking what he has done to deserve this. Until now I couldn't give a concrete answer because mostly I was shocked at the audacity of hate. Of course some would say he was awarded The Prize for what he intends to do in the world but I beg to differ. He was awarded The Prize for exactly what he has done. If you are or have ever been a person 'not' of privilege you can truly appreciate what I am about to say. Barrack Obama represented, to people around the world, a voice for those less fortunate and for those who the system of checks and balances works against. The fact that he as an African American became the President of the United States was a world act of peace. This a man who clearly out-classed his competition from day one and still had to fight tooth and nail throughout the campaigning process to attain his rightful spot as commander-in-chief & the people's true representative. If you know what it's like to be black in America then you know what a triumph that is...you know that is an inspiring story. That is such an inspiring story I had people from South Africa, Nigeria, London and France calling me minutes after the news rang across the world! That is Nobel Peace Prize worthy and anyone who says otherwise just doesn't get it but one day you'll be in the light. Namaste.

Photo Gallery: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/galleries/president_barack_obama/president_barack_obama.html

-Deji