Are racial barriers broken?

Presidential campaign of Barack Obama was one of the most discussed topics of the year 2008. Articles with the questions like “Are Americans Ready for a Black President?” “Is Obama Black Enough?” still cannot stop appearing in mass media. Even though, almost everyone in the world knows the answer that he is ‘black enough’; taking into account one of the most popular and well known fact about him that his father is black from Kenya and mother is white from Kansas. His biography is one of the most frequently viewed in the world wide web, according to the data provided by google, and still even after his victory in elections, racially hostile articles have not stopped accruing in media. Racial hatred against African-Americans seemed to lower, however in fact it grew up, as stated by The Times magazine, around 70 percent of blacks experienced hostility against their race, and this rate seemingly increased in comparison to the statistics of the year 2000, when there were 62 percent. Negative social attitude towards African-Americans cannot be ignored, when more than half of their population went through discrimination in time that promises to soften racial hatred. Another good example connected with presidential elections is McCain’s ‘anti advertisement’ for Obama, when the second one was depicted as an Arab and therefore person that is dangerous for the U.S that can be somehow connected with terrorism, due to the fact that his full name is Barack Hussein Obama. This example proves the fact that racial discrimination is still there and there is no censorship, when promoting ‘white’ over ‘black’, therefore this game excludes any rules which makes it turn into a very dangerous aspect in creation of a wrong reality. Answer to the question ready Americans or not for a black president still has no concrete answer. Due to the fact that Obama eventually won, Americans are ready but nevertheless there are still fields in the media that need urgent help.