在奥巴马执政期间美国的种族关系

Race Relation in the USA under Obama

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Lucy LU

Race Relation in the USA under Obama

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在奥巴马执政期间美国的种族关系

LUCY LU

With Obama as president have race relations improved in America? In order to

answer this question, this article will take you go back the American history and view

the present situation what African- Americans are faced to clear the clinches in this

social progress. Obama was elected in 2008 and many saw him as a

but it did not take long for the right wing Republicans and the newly formed ultra right

wing Tea Party to start a campaign against Obama. Everything he did was rejected by

the right wing, including getting the Affordable Health Care Act passed known as

Obama Care was rejected not because it was a bad act but because he was black. This

was an unspoken position. Obama Care was almost the identical system and law as Mitt

Romney, Obama's Republican opponent in the 2008 election introduced in his home

state of Massachusetts while he was governor. The Republican lead House of

Representatives opposed Obama on everything he proposed and did including multiple

attempts to overturn and withdraw funding for Obama Care. They did the same with the

Dream Act for immigrant children to become legal and refused to go forward with

immigration reform. They blamed Obama for everything but the real underlying reason

for this total rejection was simply the color of his skin, which the right wing could not

tolerate. He is not the only one who is under the attack in the American society, so do

some other African-Americans. In this article, it is noted that even though President

Obama become the first black president in American history, his politic and his

influence are not big enough to kill or diminish the racism. A large number of

African-Americans still have little or no justice and gain inappropriate treatments

especially in the southern states. We may can say racism is alive and well in the USA.

2007

年

2

月< /p>

10

日，奥巴马正式宣布成为第

44

任美国总统候选人。

2008

年

月

3

日，奥巴马被定为 民主党总统候选人；同年

8

月

23

日，在民主党全国代

表大会上奥巴马被正式提名，从而成为了美国历 史上首个非洲裔总统大选候选

人；同年

11

月

4

日，正式当选美国总统。全球各国最高领导人纷纷送上 最真挚

的祝福，

并有人说这是一个新时代。

一个由白人统治垄断的年代已经过去了，

有

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人赞叹美国的自由民 主制度的高度发展和美国宽容的理念。

但似乎仍有一部分声

音却 在高呼黑鬼滚出政坛。

美国的改变真的能消除白人世界的“种族歧视”吗？

能真正提升黑人在白人社会中的实际地位吗？此处让我们来回顾一下历史。

美国历史上黑人的地位

在北美殖民地 时期，

对非洲黑人奴隶的贩卖和奴役构成了资本原始积累的重

要 组成部分。从

1686

—

1786< /p>

年的

100

年间，约有

< br>25

万非洲黑人被贩卖到英属

北美殖民地。

黑人奴隶在北美殖民地的地位极其悲惨，

特别是那些在田间终日劳