Monumental: Barack Obama for President
June 5, 2008 | New York, New York | Vetting explained
Come this Fall, it’ll be 146 years since the Emancipation Proclamation. For the first time in our history, we have an African-American candidate for President of the United States. A prideful thing. For Barack Obama’s forebears and indeed for all Americans, of every color.
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