Destroying the Last Barrier
"Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday, sweeping away the last racial barrier in American politics with ease as the country chose him as its first black chief executive."
-New York Times, Barack Obama Elected President as Racial Barrier Falls
"...a strikingly symbolic moment in the evolution of the nation’s fraught racial history, a breakthrough that would have seemed unthinkable just two years ago."
-New York Times, Barack Obama Elected President as Racial Barrier Falls
"If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer....It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this date in this election at this defining moment, change has come to America."
-Barack Obama |
In 2008, Barack Obama was officially the first African-American elected president of the United States.