I am currently reading, Gwen Ifill book, The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama. Ifill, an African-American female, journalist, news personality and author. She is the managing editor and moderator for Washington Week (PBS) and a senior correspondent for The NewsHour (PBS). Ifill write as first book about the change agents in the political world coming out of the African-American community. The book was revealed as being proObama writing when Ifill was chosen to be the moderator for the vice-presidential debate between Senator Joseph Biden and Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin.
The book is more filled with profiles of old battered lions from the civil right movement, successful entrepreneurs coming of age, and the viable young Joshuas poised to hijack the stage from the shucking and jiving political activists of the past. Obama happened to be the biggest risk taker of these post civl right movers and shakers, who aimed for the highest office in the land, President of the United States.
How these risk takers enter the game of politic appears to rub those who believe they are in the know about winning election, the wrong way. Ifill calls it a sandpaper effect. It appears to be an African-American running for election, old school believes it has to be a wait your turn ascension. While the young hip hop group, suggest that they have followed the rules of during well in school, and their professional endeavor, so soft walk through the opposition without leaving too much carnage behind.
Obama stepped over some of the biggest names in the political world,
Rev. Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young, as well as business leader Robert Johnson. Causing, some to question Obama's commitment to the African-American community, but more importantly, his commitment to what it means to be a black man in America. Obama side stepped the question and let the question on the table for brown bag testers in the African-Americans and the marketers of racial hatred in the raced white community to figure it out.
Obama quest was getting to the white house without poking the black power fist in the air. This Joshua generation was challenging the political mindset that rest in the cracks of a nation divided. And Ifill had access to all these divided loyalties during Obama's twenty-one months trajectory to the White House.
The book is more filled with profiles of old battered lions from the civil right movement, successful entrepreneurs coming of age, and the viable young Joshuas poised to hijack the stage from the shucking and jiving political activists of the past. Obama happened to be the biggest risk taker of these post civl right movers and shakers, who aimed for the highest office in the land, President of the United States.
How these risk takers enter the game of politic appears to rub those who believe they are in the know about winning election, the wrong way. Ifill calls it a sandpaper effect. It appears to be an African-American running for election, old school believes it has to be a wait your turn ascension. While the young hip hop group, suggest that they have followed the rules of during well in school, and their professional endeavor, so soft walk through the opposition without leaving too much carnage behind.
Obama stepped over some of the biggest names in the political world,
Rev. Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young, as well as business leader Robert Johnson. Causing, some to question Obama's commitment to the African-American community, but more importantly, his commitment to what it means to be a black man in America. Obama side stepped the question and let the question on the table for brown bag testers in the African-Americans and the marketers of racial hatred in the raced white community to figure it out.
Obama quest was getting to the white house without poking the black power fist in the air. This Joshua generation was challenging the political mindset that rest in the cracks of a nation divided. And Ifill had access to all these divided loyalties during Obama's twenty-one months trajectory to the White House.
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