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Opinion
Obama’s historic victory is a big challenge to Clinton
By Fr Joachim Omolo Ouko, AJ
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explains why her campaign officials found institutions include slavery, settlement, century, and it became socially
it very difficult for her to suspend or end Indian reservations, segregation, unacceptable or morally repugnant as
her candidacy in a speech Tuesday night in residential schools (for American Indians), well, the fact that major inequalities still
New York. and internment camps. Racial persist and racial politics remains a major
Obama’s triumph which was fashioned stratification has occurred in employment, phenomenon in America explains why
on prodigious fundraising, meticulous housing, education and government. racism in the States is there to stay.
organising and his theme of change aimed Although racial discrimination was
at an electorate opposed to the Iraq war
and worried about the economy — all
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the fact that the 46-year-old first-term
hints that Obama could easily become the
senator will now face Sen. John McCain
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