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The BU household offers profuse congratulations to presumptive Democratic Party nominee to run for President of the United States. Although his opponent Senator Hillary Clinton has not followed the script and cleared the stage for the first African American presidential nominee to take the spotlight, we understand her disappointment. It has been a long and exciting campaign and the world watches to see how one of the world’s powerful countries continue to manage a key element in its democracy i.e. the election of a leader.

Again congrats to Senator Obama, we hope that the Clintons don’t spoil the party!

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73 responses to “Senator Barack Obama, We Congratulate You!”

  1. Gabriel the Horn Blower Avatar
    Gabriel the Horn Blower

    Sargeant

    Can’t put it any other way. After who ever wins the US election I still got to take the garbage out, get the children to school, pay the mortgage and keep the missus happy. I try not take myself too seriously. LOL.

    (btw I DO understand that the actions of the US will effect the world (me included)).

  2. Hopi Avatar
    Hopi

    I wish we would stop climaxing on Barack Obama and politics in general. The word POLITICS means Many Blood Suckers. As for Eric Holder he was the deputy atty-general for Bill Clinton and him and Bill conspired to and did pardon one of the filthiest fraudersters, Mark Rich who happen to be a big campaign donor. These things never happen by accident. Eric Holder then said he just wanted to crawl under his covers and hide, now I don’t know if he was really contrite. But this is one big con game. Irregardless of the next president, we’ll still be screwed. Watch their actions. Its too early in this game and too late in our history to be feeling this false sense of pride.

  3. David Avatar
    David

    The fight to change or as some would say dismantle Washington politics cannot be tagged to one man’s presidency. That’s unfair. What Barack’s election to the biggest job in the free world represents is HOPE!

  4. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    David
    Do you really believe that being the President of the USA is the the biggest job in the free world ?

    Why are we to hope in Obama?

    He is not the BLESSED HOPE. THE BLESSED HOPE IS REALLY THE ONLY HOPE!

  5. Centipede Avatar
    Centipede

    Congratulations indeed! Why not congratulate the whites who are the reason for his successful election?

    And why do we call mixed race people ‘black?’ – you should hear Tiger Woods.

    And where would the ‘Negro Race’ be today if hadn’t been transplanted into the Western World?

    Time to stop this silly ‘race’ talk and see people as PEOPLE.

  6. The scout Avatar
    The scout

    Incedentally, do you know that Eric Holder is a second generation barbadian? Both parents are bajans.

  7. The scout Avatar
    The scout

    I don’t support Barrack Obama because he’s black, I support him because of his message. It is time we see each other as human being, this black,white, Indian, etc. must come together but it is a long way off. Blacks are a lot more interested in coming together than the other races, that’s why I commend Obama for moving the legacy of Martin Luther King forward. I have relatives in the USA and they tell me that the blacks youngsters are beginning to raise their way of thinking.

  8. David Avatar
    David

    Why do we trivialize the fact that a Black man has won the Democratic nomination for the highest office in the USA? Even Whites in America are congratulating themselves and America because his nomination shows that great strides have been made since conditions which gave rise to the civil rights movement less than 50 years ago. We can preach the ideal position of the need for our world to be colour blind but it is the accomplishments of people like Obama who maybe able to able to establish rainbow coalitions that will translate that ideal or dream to a reality.

    Don’t forget that the last man to do it was White and he was assassinated by fringe elements in the USA for his trouble.

    We hope for mankind that Obama is able to continue on his journey.

  9. Sheshemini Avatar
    Sheshemini

    Politically Incorrect, I did not put two and two together regarding Eric Holder until I saw his name here in the blog. I heard them mention his name on the news as part of a Vice Presidential team, but it just slipped me, so when I saw his name here, I said oh, that Eric Holder and I remembered the Ebony article. I gather the late Mr. John Johnson was the one that made the final decision of running the Eric Holder article in Ebony. It was a nice article and it showed pictures of Eric and wife and baby. I believe the article said the wife was a doctor at Howard University Hospital. Scout the article in Ebony did not mention that Eric Holder was a Barbadian, they made it sound like he was American. Yes I have always wondered why we call mixed race people black myself. You shoudld hear Chelsea Smith the last year Miss USA lambasting in Ebony sayin she is half white and half black. And I guess Tiger who was married to the white lady in Barbados says he is Chinese, black and white.

  10. Yardbroom Avatar
    Yardbroom

    People can sometimes be whatever they “think” they are.

    Some years ago completing documents for a student, I enquired of ethnicity? after a slight pause, he said white. He was darker than me..I could not understand it… I put white on his document. No one in the class thought he was white, but was I to have an argument with him to convince him he was black…time and experience would be the ultimately judge of that.

  11. Sheshemini Avatar
    Sheshemini

    Yardbroom, This was told to me by a mixed race lady from my home country in the Caribbean. This mixed race lady was sponsored as a domestic in the mid 60’s from back home. She needed a social security card so the white American boss took her down to the US Post Office to fill out the form. She filled out the form, and in the area for race she wrote coloured. The man reviewed the form before turning it in, and upon seeing coloured as race he told her to change it to white. He said back home you are coloured, but they don’t know the difference here, so just be white from now on.

  12. Yardbroom Avatar
    Yardbroom

    Sheshemini
    This student was one of only two black students in the class; all the others were white.

    I could have tried to explain certain issues to him, but it was the first week of term. I wanted to have as good a relationship with him as with the other students, sometimes it is best to learn through experience.

    The lessons thus learned, are more permanent.

  13. 100% bajan Avatar
    100% bajan

    The Nation newspaper article reports that Eric Holder’s father who left Barbados when he was 12 0r 13 met and married his wife who was born in New Jersey of Barbadian parents does that still make Eric Holder who was born in New York a Bajan?

    Personally I think we are the only country that is quick to try to identify with anyone who might have a trickling of Bajan blood in them as a “son/daughter of the soil”

  14. Sheshemini Avatar
    Sheshemini

    Well Yardbroom, I see what you mean. I don’t know if you have ever seen the movie Imitation of Life? Wonderful movie that deals with race issues in pre civil rights America. I always cry at the end when Mahalia Jackson lifts her voice in song to the Lord at the funeral. What you mentioned about the student made this movie come to mind.

  15. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    100% bajan wrote

    The Nation newspaper article reports that Eric Holder’s father who left Barbados when he was 12 0r 13 met and married his wife who was born in New Jersey of Barbadian parents does that still make Eric Holder who was born in New York a Bajan?

    Personally I think we are the only country that is quick to try to identify with anyone who might have a trickling of Bajan blood in them as a “son/daughter of the soil”
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    We do not consider folk to be Jews only because they were born in Israel? Do we?

    So why must you necessarily be born in Bim to be Bajan?

  16. David Avatar
    David

    Events of yesterday seem to have paved the way for a Clinton and Obama peace pipe session which should see the transition of Clinton supporters to Obama and the process to heal the party going into November. No doubt it will take some time for the hard feeling on both side of the fence to thaw but thaw it will when the Democrats realize that there is a big prize at stake.

    Of interest to Barbados and our politicians and aspirants alike has been the way Obama and Clinton have generated interest in the process of elective politics in the USA. Women, independents have been falling out of the woodwork. In Barbados we have seen a reversal where our people have become so cynical and disconnected about and from the process that if it continues could lead to an undermining of our current system. We need for our political parties to attract the right kinds of people to serve. The old way which the party machinery has been use to regurgitating politicians needs to be revisited.

  17. Sheshemini Avatar
    Sheshemini

    Well David, not I, but many black folks here in America saw Buba Clinton, ah mean President Clinton as our first black president, so with that, and when all is said and done I am sure the Clinton’s will go into high gear for Senator Obama.

  18. Yardbroom Avatar
    Yardbroom

    SheShemini
    I have also seen Imitation of Life. The first time I saw it as a young man, I was annoyed with the daughter.

    Later, I saw it at another level and understood how the environment in which a person lives, can condition their way of thinking about themselves.

    It is indeed a good film, it is repeated on televison from time to time. Like you, I certainly would recommend a viewing.

  19. JC Avatar
    JC

    Obama is the man of the century in my eyes. I’ll tell you why, he married a black woman!

    yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

  20. The scout Avatar
    The scout

    It seem every little thing Obama does that appears to be a mistake on his part or by association, he’s dragged over the coals. Yet McCain is either being very forgetful or liar and his associate are saying awhful things like the remarks made me the priest about Katrina and God’s punishment to those people and about Hitler and the holocust ordained by God. These are serious statments and to this day McCain has not disassociate himself from this man. Yet they want to crucify Obama for an eratic Rev Wright. It’s time we look pass race and colour, that is premative thinking. I only see race when other one wants to deem me inferior and exploit me.

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    would like the address of attoney general are Barack obama. thank you so much

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