maternal grandparents
Columbia University: BA in political Science
Harvard Law School with a Juris Doctor 1992 married Michelle Robinson Two daughters
When it came to treating her citizens of African descent fairly, America failed. She put them in chains, the government put them in cotton field, put them in inferior schools, put them in substandard housing, put them in scientific experiments, put them in the lowest paying jobs, put them outside the equal protection of the law and locked them into positions of hopelessness and helplessness. The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, not God Bless America. God damn America — that's in the Bible — for killing innocent people. God damn America, for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America, as long as she tries to act like she is God, and she is supreme.
1997-2004 three terms in the Illinois Senate
2004 won election to the US Senate 2007 Began his presidential campaign 2008 general election, he defeated
middle of the presidential election campaign in 2008, ABC news released a story examining the sermons of Reverend Wright in which he denounced the US and accused the government of crimes against people of color. Wright had said “God damn America” for its racism and “for killing innocent people.”
我们合众国人民，为建立更完善的联邦，树立正 义，保障国内安宁，提供共同防务，促进公共福 利，并使我们自己和后代得享自由的幸福，特为 美利坚合众国制定本宪法。
The document was written broadly, so that it could evolve with the country. Basic rules were stated emphatic left to later generations, for example, the issue of slavery.
赖特在布道时，发表了许多具有强烈争议性的言 论，包括中东冲突不是源于伊斯兰教的仇恨，而 是根源于以色列的行动；美国和以色列都是恐怖 主义；“9-11”恐怖袭击是上帝在谴责美国；美国 是一个被有钱白人控制的社会，谁会在乎贫穷黑 人的日常生活。他的言论被媒体与网络广为流传， 成为外界攻击奥巴马的议题。
我们合众国人民，为建立更完善的联邦，树立正 义，保障国内安宁，提供共同防务，促进公共福 利，并使我们自己和后代得享自由的幸福，特为 美利坚合众国制定本宪法。
The US constitution: set forth a basic framework for a government that kept power divided among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches
Amended 27 times and the first ten amendments are known as the Bill of Rights权利和自由法案----美国宪法前十条 修正案.
Unit Nine
A More Perfect Union (part I)
Barack Obama
Life story of Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II(1961-) The 44th President of the USA The first African-American to hold the office Born in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father---- Kenya His mother--- a white woman from Kansas Age 6-10 lived in Indonesia 1971, returned to Hawaii and lived with his
The Preamble to the US Constitution
We the people of the United States, in Order to from a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common Defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Before this controversy, Obama had begun to distance himself from Wright and right after the controversy Obama again denounced Wright’s offending remarks. But after critics continued to press the issue of his relationship with Wright, he gave this speech, in which he placed Wright’s comments in a historical and sociological context. In the speech, Obama again denounced Wright’s remarks, but did not disown him as a person.
Excerpts of his sermons
"We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye... and now we are indignant, because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought back into our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost.“ (sermons short after the 9.11 attack)
The chickens have come home to roost
Sermons in 2003
"[The United States] government lied about their belief that all men were created equal. The truth is they believed that all white men were created equal. The truth is they did not even believe that white women were created equal, in creation nor civilization. The government had to pass an amendment to the Constitution to get white women the vote.
The Preamble to the US Constitution
We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common Defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.