America is all set and getting ready for what seems to be the making of the first black president, the issue of race continues to simmer under slow fire in the American ghettos where a huge underclass is left jobless and under the influence of drugs and gang war.
Clinton raised the issue of race and was challenged by Obama as he stated that American should speak only on racial issues, yet the question remains as to what is the future of the vast majority of underclass black people who fail to finish school and are imprisoned before they reach the age of forty.
Martin Luther King will be memorized by the churches on the back drop of Obama contesting the presidential elections in America, but what Obama and the many other black who hold offices of high rank do for the these black who continue to live in deprived conditions. America is one of the most developed nations in the world and it is hard to believe that a country so liberal in outlook can have racial issues simmering underneath the glitzy and fast life of Americans, where everything seems to be perfect and in harmony. Presidents are concerned about the other nations of the world and their governments but have been ignoring an important issue right in the midst of their own country.
The blacks are divided; the upper and the middle class get educated, get jobs and hold offices of profit and there remains this enormous underclass which is on a stand still with little hope of their advancement. With these issues under its lap, America surely needs a reality check before it ventures out to sort the problem of nations around the world.
via:gaurdian
