President Obama has arrived in Ghana, his first stop in Sub Saharan Africa during his Presidency.
Many observers would have thought he would have chosen Kenya, the homeland of his father, to be the first African country he would visit. But he decided he wanted to emphasize the flourishing democracy that is succeeding in Ghana, which was also the first African nation to become independent in the post World War II years.
There is a lot that crosses one’s mind when one realizes that here we have an African American president visiting a country from which the ancestors of his wife Michelle were transported against their will in the vicious slave trade that went on for centuries from West Africa, including Ghana, to the United States.
It makes one realize how far we have come, and yet, with all of the remaining racism still part of America, how far we have yet to travel!