THE OBAMAS' RESONANCE

THE OBAMAS' RESONANCE The 8-year reign of Barack Obama may also be the only 8-year era of African Americans' history, when they have also been happily, if not functionally, "leaderless," in the sense that Obama is the President of the United States of America in its entirety, not of merely one part. Also in the sense that the strong allegiance and patronage of the blacks being in favor of the first African American President and First Family, this sentiment has degraded the erstwhile pull of an assortment of civil rights groups. While there may be negatives and positives associated with this state of affairs, as with anything else, all-in-all, Obama has been a gain for blacks and for all other Americans! Its psychological value, alone, has been profoundly felt, if not stated, by younger generations of black people. who now know that what their forebears preached to them is true: "In America you can grow up to be anything you want to be!" Not to be lost in this political epoch is the signal intelligence, beauty, & sublime grace of the First Lady, Michelle Obama, their daughters, Malia and Sasha, even maternal Grandma Marian Shields Robinson. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Shields_Robinson So the Obamas' resonance has been operating on many levels, seen and unseen; tangible and intangible; political and cultural; familial somethings for all.