Protest for change

  President George Bush, our 43 rd. President, in a noted speech in Africa at Goree Island Senegal, described the “forced migration of slavery in America, as one of the greatest crimes of history.” He also ended his historic speech by not only extolling the herculean efforts of protest for change of various Americans to end this terrible blight in the Republic”, but arguing that the nation was on the right course, eventually. Many, in the nation and beyond, viewed the election of the 44th President Barack Obama, as a sign that finally major progress would now be hastened on the race relations front. Political pundits, and even social scientists, described this new phenomenon as “post racial America.” Yet, in reality, it is now largely agreed that the Obama era has seen a hardening and worsening of Race Relations in the nation. a) How do you explain this phenomenon, especially in the context of our analysis and examination of some of the protest leaders and national mood during these 15 weeks? How for example did LBJ, Reagan and MLK try, if any, to move America in a positive direction? b) Finally outline a programmatic schema (legislative, executive action, educational economic, etc.) and through “protest for change”, that you contend would positively modify this blot on our democracy/ republic, and hasten the incremental change slowly being made.