Obama is in GHANA!

I think it is awesome to have our President visit a former slave holding. For a while, some African Americans were wondering if our President was black enough for us. Well, from the beginning, I think he has done a great job of supporting change. We can now fly to Cuba and troops are slowly leaving Iraq. Now, Washington is not perfect, there is so much that has to be done to fix our this recession. However, our President still makes time to take his daughters for some ice cream. He is a man of priorities! So tomorrow, I will be watching as a our President makes his tour to a place where my ancestors departed to come here as slaves. Yes, his dad is Kenyan, but to me, brown is brown everywhere, he is from the continent, like my ancestors are from the continent. I hope one day myseld I can make a visit to a country in Africa, if possible, with some good research maybe I can at least know the area where my ancestors came from. These thoughts ran throug my mind as I watched CNN, I loved how Anderson Cooper spoke about this significance. I think it is a great moment to see how far we have come as people. 500 years of free labor, and still today we face discrimination in areas still, BUT our PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES , a black man will be coming to the continent tomorrow, not to mention his beautiful smart wife, a descenent of slaves like myself. But, we are more than just descendents of slaves, so the trip is not just about the oppression, I think it is also a victory moment, a tribute to how strong we are as people, and most of all the strength of the black woman that made us survive all our time here in America..this reminds me why I am valuable.... I am so exited to see the girls too, especially when they came off the plane.... but most of all, we still have to really be inspired to do for ourselves, this President is only one man... I do hope these younger kids see how nice it is to have this image in our minds, and most of all it can inspire children of color to keep rising above ...