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It could very well be that Jefferson Davis is turning in his grave, as Barak Obama is now officialy the Democrats nomminee for the white house
This is Certainly a big moment in American History - No Matter what your political views are.
If Hillary would have been nominated it would have been A moment no less significant, I think.
This history teacher/ blogger brings the following facts, which are quite numbing (not really in a good way)
Two African Americans served in the U.S. Senate during Reconstruction, both representing the state of Mississippi. The first, Hiram Revels was elected in 1870 and sat in Jefferson Davis’s old seat while Blanche K. Bruce, a former slave, was elected in 1875. Since then, only three African-Americans–Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts (1967-1978), Carol Moseley Braun (1993-1998) and Barack Obama (2004-)–have held seats in the Senate. In the House of Representatives, 121 African Americans have served since 1868. On the state level only one African American served as governor in Louisiana during the winter of 1872-73 before Douglas Wilder of Virginia was elected in 1989.
I never realize that even on the “lower levels” of government there were painfully few African Americans.
Some things are so important on so many levels, that in a way they even surpass personal views because they symbolize something so much more important and so bigger than one man or woman’s view of things.
This nomination is definitely one of those things. But the point is not quite made yet and the breakthrough only half way acomplished - this long road will only end in the white house.
