Jez's Blog

As most of the people in the world have known that Barack Obama has won the USA presidential election of 2008. Yet, he became the first African American president in the history of the United State of America. I've heard from many sources, talking about how grateful it is to have Obama being elected as the president of the United State of America. I've also seen his victory speech, and sure it was extraordinary and touching. However, while some people are celebrating for Obama's victory of the election, talking about all the goods about such result, someone else are talking about different things..

Racism 'would block a British Obama', is an article that I've read, which is basically saying that people are surprised that Obama had broken through the 'institutionally racist,' and successfully became the first African American president of the United State of America.

'If Barack Obama had lived here I would be very surprised if even somebody as brilliant as him would have been able to break through the institutional stranglehold that there is on power within the Labour Party,' said Phillips, referring to Prime Minister Gordon Brown's governing party.

Thus, according to Phillips' words, people are judging their politicians by the colour of their skins instead of their politics? Don't worry, it's not true. 'I work with very talented, very able black politicians and I know from talking to constituents around the country, that our constituents are very sophisticated and we judge our politicians by their policies, not by the colour of their skin,' Khan told BBC.

This article has definitely shown different opinions. I personally agree with Khan's opinion, which is that people should judge their politicians by their politics and not the colour of their skins. Also, I personally think that judging politicians, or even other people by the colour of their skins, referring to the Labor's system, which Phillips has mentioned in the article, is a kind of bias.


- http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Barack-Obama-prime-minister-political-system-press-conference/photo//081108/photos_wl_uk_afp/8940b2452efa063c201755d7d4e0462b//s:/afp/20081108/wl_uk_afp/uspoliticsbritainracism/im:/081108/photos_ts_afp/be71f024b8cdf498ea9d496c8aaf1dac/#photoViewer=/081108/photos_ts_afp/be71f024b8cdf498ea9d496c8aaf1dac
[Picture of Obama in a meeting with the Transition Economic Advisory Board in Chicago. Copied by Jez Lee. 8th of Nov.]