Barack Obama's win of the 2008 election is one that signals a new day regarding race in America. The last eight years under the Bush administration have been difficult for many Americans. The Bush administration has not kept their promises and we are now ready for the new change elect President Obama will bring. Not just an idea for a change that we will not see in the next four years, but a change that will be visible to the American people. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek” (Obama). Although, the majority is hungry for the new change, there are others who will argue that a black president will add no benefit towards the country and will do nothing for the racial segregation in the United States.
Obama's win has not just changed the way African Americans are now viewed in America, it changes how the rest of the world now views blacks, let alone the image the United States used to uphold. The United States will no longer hold the same degrading steriotypes that were once used as a crutch to any American overseas. Obama has the ability to relate to all different types of people from all walks of life, which played a key role in his historic win. With Barack Obama's Kenyan father and white American mother, and his upbringing in Honolulu and Jakarta, to his Ivy league education, allows him to relate to people all over the world. Not only did several polls show strong support for him in other countries, Obama also established close relationships with prominent foreign politicians and elected officials even before his presidential candidacy. When Obama annouced his candadicy in Springfield, Illinois, he stated, "And if you will join me in this improbable quest, if you feel destiny calling, and see as I see, a future of endless possibility streching before us; if you sense, as I sense that the time is now to shake off our slumber, and slough off our...