Geneva Neale channelled his vitality and energy. Aston Donaldson saw Christ-like qualities. Claudius Pascal said if he died tomorrow, he would be a happy man. And Mekonnen W. Biedu viewed his story not in terms of race but of class.
The election of Barack Obama as the next United States president on Nov. 4 struck senior celebrants, attending what became an Obama victory party at the Afro-Canadian Caribbean Association of Hamilton (ACCA) headquarters, in different ways.
But when the big-screen TV flashed the declaration that Obama would be the victor, around 11 o'clock Eastern time, the reaction was the same for all – an eruption of joyous, sustained cheering, soon accompanied by ...
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