20 January 2009, one of these days in American history that the African American Community is increasingly thinking about – the day Barack Hussein Obama has been formed as the 44th President of the United States of America. The world watches as a man of 47 years with his hand the same color velvet burgundy Bible that Abraham Lincoln, which is committed to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution” a country which, to be on the war against you. Obama invited President Lincoln Bible, by his wife, now the First Lady Michelle Obama, as were her two daughters. The next day, the first family woke up in a white house, part of slaves, who certainly did not imagine a day when the nation was the son of an African man and a white American.

In his speech, President Obama has acknowledged the enormous challenges the country, including how to discover, to repair housing, a shrinking economy, job loss, management and two wars. A good number of responsibilities on his shoulders, one of which is not often discussed in public, and that is how the president of life as an example of what can happen, for which the African American Community, which well suited to school, have a dream and professional, which is necessary for them, remains the legal problems, and shows a reproduction of personal responsibility.

“President Obama is a high-profile example of what we can achieve. So it is also his wife, also a lawyer, give us new reasons to say that a child’s trust in” Yes, you can “be what you want with hard work, commitment and education.” Judson said Robinson, III, President and CEO of Houston Area Urban League. He said the election of Mr. Obama is not to reduce his organization’s mission is to address the social and economic equality in the African American Community, but it Reinvigorate. “We have many programs and efforts to broaden the scope of mentoring youth in setting goals, mentoring programs on how the achievement of these objectives, and why it is important to make good decisions and for things that hinder their success, such as alcohol, drugs and gangs, “Robinson said.” If African American adults with a measure of success, took the time to what they have learned, with youth, we believe there is little excuse for fails to meet your goals of thinking. ”

Robinson, whose father was the first in the African American Community chose Houston City Council in 1971, he excited to see how President Obama America is the rest, but he is also fascinated by the Organization in its efforts to attract more people. Only a few weeks before the opening of the first African American as president, Robinson was opening a business, that the guardians of children preparing for their SATs, when it is outside. “I saw a young man walk to the road wear pants that sagged all he has to walk with legs wide open almost to fall from his pants,” he says. “This makes me ever more of this work. I wish for our young man. Discuss with them on their image, what happens to some of what they do, and messages of itself it can send without knowing it. “Robinson hopes that the new president is a new image and a model for everyone in the African American Community emulate.