A More Perfect Union

In Barack Obama’s story of “A More Perfect Union”, he describes the struggles of being black. I think his point of America having improved so much is completely true. Even though there is still racism going on very much today, it is nothing like it use to be years ago. With Obama being president, many questions and issues have come up but Obama ran for the fact to show that we can all come together as one country. Obama points out the fact that we are all alike by the things that we want in our country: schools that form our children’s futures, people that believe our children can learn and be somebody, equal job opportunities, to see that men and women of every race are fighting together under one flag, and for all to show their patriotism to our country. Many forget the fact that Barack Obama is half white and half black and was raised by his white grandmother and grandfather. Another fact that Obama brings up is how the wealth gap potentially formed. Years ago blacks were not able to purchase land, receive loans, and were excluded from unions, the police force, and from the fire department. Because of this future generations were not able to have that start on their lives, they were always stuck being at the bottom. I believe Obama is right that our country has so much further to become a perfect union and who knows if that will ever happen because of the fast that many of all gone through and still hold that grudge and sometimes pass it on to their next generation by telling them the history instead of just letting it go and realizing that our country really has come a long way. He describes this answer after introducing Reverend Wright and understanding why he says the things he does in his sermons. Obama doesn’t believe that holding these grudges is right because as a kid he got to experience the racism and has learn how much our country has changes through politics.