Friday, June 29, 2012

Mia Love.. the Female Obama?

Mia Love is a female counterpart of Barack Obama but instead of running for President she is running for Congress. The political office or gender are not the other differences between Obama and Love. There is the theme of redefining blackness in America and appeal to those who do fit the stereotypes of the descendants of American slaves. Love, born to Haitian parents has married a raced white Mormon male while Obama's mother was a raced white woman from Kansas married to an African. Obama ran as a Democrat for political office and Love ran for political office as a Republican. Love will provoke a conversation about "race" in Utah, but to overcome the historical bias based on not simply race..but skin color that the late Dr.Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr referred in his I have a Dream speech, "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." And for that Love will need a tons of money to overcome in Utah.

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