African Americans praying over President Obama
Since the 2008 election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States, numerous constituencies have experienced some measure of social uplift as they have exercised their political strength in compelling the administration to advance their interests.
This reality prevails, as the Hispanic community, ever politically cognizant of Obama's campaign promises ensuring his commitment to the body's general prosperity, observed the 2009 nomination and installment of Justice Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court.
Latino Americans would further realize a social triumph, as this population in the late spring and summer months of last year asserted their increasing political might in pressuring the White House to maneuver on behalf the collective in halting Arizona's veiled efforts to establish an apartheid state in its attempt to enact Arizona Senate Bill 1070 .
Not only have Hispanic Americans utilized their political capital in prompting the Obama Administration to function as a proponent for measures that would ensure greater degrees of group wealth but so too has another population.
The gay community in December of last year witnessed the culmination of an enormous protracted effort to force the federal government to end what they and many others believed to be a human rights violation. The repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" -- the United States military's policy rendering gay and lesbian armed service members unable to divulge their sexual orientation absent penalty -- served as an enormous step in this people's fight for an equitable standing within American society.
In the face of these monumental victories experienced by the Hispanic and gay communities in imposing their political will on the Obama administration to act as an advocate in forwarding each group's agenda, the president's most loyal constituents have yet to collectively enter into such interactions with the Head of State - even though their needs are the greatest. The reason for this circumstance may perhaps exist as a product of an aged African American conviction.
The African-American community has long functioned as an integral force behind the Democratic Party and even more so as a stalwart supporter of the institution's latest lead official, President Obama. It is a population however, that has historically experienced enormous suffering, not withstanding its current condition which further serves to extend this troubled legacy.
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