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[PolitiC@Nippon] "U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA IS A DESCENDANT OF SLAVES."


Ref: CNN  
  


  
 

"バカみたいな話だと思われるかもしれないかもしれませんが、例えば今、アメリカは黒人が大統領になっているんですよ。黒人の血を引くね。これは奴隷ですよ。はっきり言って。リンカーンが奴隷解放をやったと。でも、公民権も何もない。マーティン・ルーサー・キング(牧師)が出て、公民権運動の中で公民権が与えられた。でもですね、まさか、アメリカの建国、当初の時代に、黒人・奴隷がアメリカの大統領になるとは考えもしない。これだけのですね、ダイナミックの変革をしていく国なんです。 Ref: http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/11199348/

"In the United States, the black man became a president.
Black people used to be the slaves.  Even though Lincoln did the emancipation of slaves, those black people still did not get the civil rights nor other rights that time.
After Martin Luther King's civil rights movement, finally, the black people got the civil rights.
Now, who would ever thought that black slaves could become the President of the United States back then? America is the country who does such dynamic reform."
 


The translated part starting from: 1' 31, ending at 2'05 
  




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