1. The US, Barrack Obama
and the history of
Afro-Americans

2. The US, Barack Obama and the history of Afro-Americans
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Jay-Z - “My president is black”
(Chorus) My president is black, my Maybach, too
And I'll be god damned if my diamonds ain't blue
My money's dark green and my Porsche is light grey
(Hey) I'm headed to D.C., anybody feel me?
(Verse) My president is black / In fact
He's half-white / So even in a racist mind, he's half-right
So if you got a racist mind, you be aight
My president is black, but his house is all white
Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther could walk
Martin Luther walked so Barack Obama could run
Barack Obama ran so all the children could fly
So I'ma spread my wings, you can meet me in the sky
I already got my own clothes, already got my own shoes
I was hot / Before Barack
Imagine what I'm gonna do
Hello, Miss America / Hey pretty lady,
Red, white, and blue flag, wave for me, baby
Never thought I'd say this shit / Baby, I'm good
You can keep your puss / I don't want no more Bush (shit)
No more war, no more Iraq / No more white lies, the
president is black!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE3k5GPiWRQ

3. The US, Barack Obama and the history of Afro-Americans
Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in
Hawaii (US). His father was a black man born in
Africa (Kenya) and his mother was a white woman
born in Kansas (US).
Obama's father and his mother divorced when
Obama was 6 years old. His mother remarried an
Indonesian. His family moved to Indonesia, where
Obama lived until he was 10 years old.
Obama studied political science in Los Angeles and
New York as well as law in Boston.
He then moved to Chicago where he worked as a
social worker. In Chicago he also married Michelle
Robinson, now Michelle Obama. They have two
daughters together: Maila Ann (*1998) and
Natasha (*2001).
He started teaching law at university.
In 1996 Obama was elected in his first political
office; he became an US senator in 2004.
In 2008 he was elected President of the USA.
Nobody would have believed two years earlier
that a colored person or an Afroamerican could
become President of the USA.

4. The US, Barack Obama and the history of Afro-Americans
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Could somebody of foreign
heritage or with foreign ancestors
become chancellor/president in
Austria?

5. The US, Barack Obama and the history of Afro-Americans
50 years ago it was impossible for an Afroamerican to become
president. In fact, in many parts of the USA segregation was everyday-
routine. Segragation meant that Afroamericans were seperated from the
white population and were treated like scum.
segregation – Rassentrennung population – Bevölkerung
seperate – trennen scum - Abschaum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyWOutUXFw8

6. A short Afro-American history

7. The US, Barack Obama and the history of Afro-Americans
A short Afro-American history (I)
Africans didn`t come to the USA because they
wanted to, they were brought to the US as slaves
to work on giant farms, so called plantations.
Slavery started in 1619. Dutch traders brought
Africans to the US and traded them for food and other goods.
By 1680, about 60,000 slaves were brought to the US each year and sold
for a lot of money. The slaves had no rights at all. They were the same as
chairs or chickens under the law.
In 1865 slavery ended in the United States.
This didn’t mean that Afro-Americans and whites
were now treated equally. Segregation was the
new keyword, meaning that Afro-Americans
were not allowed to use the same restaurants,
buses, trains and schools as whites.

8. The US, Barack Obama and the history of Afro-Americans
A short Afro-American history (II)
The tension between Afro-Americans and the
whites could be felt especially in the south of
the USA. In 1955, Rosa Parks, an African-American
woman, was on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
When asked, she refused to give her seat to a white
person, as the law ordered it – and was arrested
for it. This led to massive protests of Afro-Americans.
People who worked and fought for the rights of
Afro-Americans called themselves civil rights
movement.
Martin Luther King was a famous leader of this
movement. In 1963 he led a protest of 200 00
people to Washington D.C. . As a result of the
protests, discriminating laws were changed.