Newspaper Front Pages - Wednesday 5th November 2008
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Matt Wardman
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While I was in the US doing my Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in the 1980s I challenged many Americans, and even once to Ann Arbor News that it would take another 50 years for a white lady to become a president of the US, whereas Bangladesh had by that time two lady leaders, who became eventually head of the governemts. The event of 4th November 2008, is more epoching making than my boast about Bangladesh. What we read about black history is shameful for any civilized people. And the blacks who I met on the streets and talked gave me a gut feeling how much they undermined themselves. It turned out to me that abject poverty and ignorance of the black people were turned against them, as if they deserve it. Those who forciblly enslved people have no responsibility, and it is who were enslaved deserve it, and the plight of these people are because of them. This has been enshrined in the minds of the white majority through the indoctrination of social-darwinism. In last 40 years things must have changed without which Obama would have been another Jessy Jackson. The war, the economy, the funny candidates like Paulin, and the media blitz for rationality all helped Obama to win. But the US has a long way to go and to become a nation of normancy. It is the beginning of the end of American arogance. May be we are asking for the end of the American history, and the beginning of the history of mankind where rainbow colors will be illuminted instead of a single parochial color, where people would move withot visa, speak the language humanity, and keep intact the habitat for the future generations.
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