Jamaican Geoffrey Philp [1] thinks that Barack Obama “has a deep understanding of America and that he offers a transcendent vision of America that we haven't had in a long time”, while Notes from Port of Spain [2] quotes Obama's “race speech”: “‘I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas,'” Barack Obama declared last week in a speech that seemed to awe just about everyone… ‘and for as long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible.’
Excuse me? Has Barack never heard of Trinidad and Tobago, to take just one example?”
Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, USA: Obama's Vision
· Written by Janine Mendes-Franco
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