Through It All

From the middle passage, shackles, whips, auctions, cotton fields, negro spirituals, secret church, rape, abuse, scars, hangings, fires, hoses, boycotts, descrimination, segregation, Jim Crow Laws to protests, civil rights movement, NAACP, Dr. King, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation to freedom, equal education, hatred, inventions, music, beauty, growth, scholarship opportunities, wealth, success, empowerment and to the ultimate achievement of all a African American president; Obama.