President-elect Barack Hussein Obama
You have to understand, one of the main reasons I watched the TV series 24
was because of Dennis Haysbert portraying an African American seeking
the American presidency -- in a campaign that's his to lose. I believed
that Haysbert would be the only African American US President I'd ever
see in my lifetime, even though (or perhaps especially because) he was
fictional. Further, whenever one of Haysbert's Allstate Insurance TV
commercials would come on, I'd gasp in exaggerated hushed tones,
"Oh--the President!"
The only other time I'd seen a reference to an African American President was in the very little-remembered 1980s comic book title, Thriller.
And
so tonight, watching Barack Hussen Obama win the election to become the
44th President of the United States of America is purely amazing, just
amazing.
I just do wish that Aaron had lived to see it.
Comments
There was a movie, Deep Impact (1998), in which Morgan Freeman had a small role as the President. In his main scene, he was seeking to reassure the country that, even though we were about to be hit by a comet, "we will survive." No reference was made to the fact that he, the POTUS, was Black. Some critic (I forget who) said that if the world were about to be hit be a comet, he wished that Freeman was the President, because then he could believe his reassuring words.
Posted by: Lee Miller | November 6, 2008 8:42 AM