What happened during the Obama years is not a change I can believe in, it was just more of the same. It is indisputable Barack Obama was the first non-white man to become President of the United States of America. But the question that still lingers for myself and many others, is whether we should be classifying him as the first African-American president? https://www.diasporaengager.com/Africa From its inception, the term African-American was created as a cultural safe haven for the progeny of American slaves. The classification is the marker of a connection that black Americans lost with Africa when their forefathers were brought to America in chains. It is my belief that when Jesse Jackson coined the term “African-American” in 1988, it was specifically tied to the multi-generational cultural cost of American chattel slavery.
http://www.newsmax.com/AntonioMoore/obama-african-american-wealth/2016/12/21/id/765065/
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