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Political Context Black Panther

Obama’s presidency and initiatives designed to aid minority groups: Obama was the 44th president in the United States of America. Obama became president on 20 January 2009 to 20 January 2017 and he was president for 2 terms. Obama was the first African American president in the United States. Before he became the president, he was a U.S. senator from 2005 to 2008, this shows how he knows about the law and how he knows about what to do in terms of the running a county and he was held in position of the government for several years. When he became president he had certain laws intact in USA. For example, he had placed the Affordable Care Act, Don’t Tell Repeal Act of 2010. This was very surprising because in Americas history they had only White president running the country, this shows how Obama has a lot of great ideas to put America into shape again and make it easier for people to live in a hard country like this. However, Obama has been racially motivated because he stayed in the White house for 8 year which shows how some people don’t accept his just because he was black. This shows how the citizens of America don’t support his ideologies and his work he has done over his entire presidency run from 2008, re-elected at 2012 and then all the way to 2017. When Obama was elected for presidency again in 2012, this shows how people actually liked his plans and actions to make sure the America is a safe and fun place to be. In 2015. Obama legalised the marriages for gay people, where they can be married without any further consequences. Another thing that he has done is that how he has moved to the white house, where in the past that a black person couldn’t be there and not even run a country there. Well, that is what Obama has done and this shows the right of equality between other people and it shows how they show different support system and how they have put this in place. This shows a change how Obama has changed the worlds view and its perspective, of how anybody can do presidency and this is related to the black panther movie by having a leader which is black and this shows the diversity between different races. Trumps Presidency and attempts to reverse certain policies. Trump is the 45th president in United States of America as he has ended the time of former president Barack Obama. His presidency started at January 2017 to January 2021, as he has been beaten from current president Joe Biden. Well matter of the fact, we are not going to talk about Joe Biden but Trump and how he has impacted America and how is ideologies and his actions changes Americas history. Before Tump was a famous person beforehand, like he was a businessman and he was a media personality, were he shares his opinion to the world and how people are moved by what he says, either it could be a good thing or a bad thing. Another thing is that during Trumps presidency, he had different laws intact when Obama wasn’t the president anymore. Trump in his time as president attempts to reverse certain policies. During 2016, Trumps wanted to roll back Obama plans and his action and what he did to America, when he was President. For example, Donald Trump wanted to remove and replace Obamacare and he did change it. However, the Republican-led house broke the rules and still kept Obamacare. This was backfired as it was hard because of how Obamacare was successful and it is very easy to follow and even the Justice Department was trying to pick it sown but they failed as well. This shows how Obama legacy is more resilient as it is more efficient and effective. Another example, Immigration, where Donald Trump wanted to make it illegal for people to come to America, so that America can be only there based cultured people. However, this has backfired, because of how Trump continued this action, if he was re-elected to be president but Joe Biden was elected so the plan that Immigration where it bans foreign people to live in America has failed. Another thing is that how to minimise foreign people to enter America, Donald J Trump has installed a wall from Mexico and USA, so it stops people entering the country illegally and this was one of the successes that he has had. Another example is Racial Justice, it has been extremely backfired, because of how Obama became the first black person to become President of the United Sates of America in 2008 and how in 2020, Trump has been talking about the Black Lives Matter movement and was talking about how he doesn’t support it.This shows how Obama has defined the odds and changed history forever and how Trump has different opinions about certain minorities. Black Lives Matter: Black Lives Matter is a movement where they protest against violence towards people who are African American. Black Lives Matter started on 13th July 2013. The movement started when a person called George Zimmerman shot a person called Trayvon Martin in 2013. Black Lives Matter speak about the police brutality and the racial inequality toward people who were African American black people. The movement has been founded by 3 people, which were Alica Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi. In 2014, BLM has increased in numbers were 2 unarmed black men named Eric Garner and Micheal Brown was killed by police officers. This shows how police officers were violence and brutally killed people who did nothing wrong, but still had a consequence, which was death and when headlines cover a story of a Black Man has died, this can spart outrage from the whole community were this shows how police officers are racially profiling and racially motivated as they kill people on the streets. In Social Media, they use a sign #BLM, which is very known as it shows respect to people who have lost their lives from Police Brutality and being killed due to their skin colour. The goal of Black Lives Matter was that is to spread awareness to people about the inequality and the unfairness that people were killed for no reason. This shows people are protesting about there should be punishment where a person who killed a person should have severe consequences. the Black Panther movie, it shows a lot of black character as is trying to represent that there isn’t any diverse equality in the real world, the main hero is mostly white and they are portrayed as that. However, for black people they are rarely in hero in a movie. After the Black Panther Movie, in 2020, there was a person called George Floyd who was killed and suffocated to death by a police officer, upon the scene Floyd was not resisting arrest but he didn’t want to go inside the police car cause he feel claustrophobic, and the police officer arrested him and put his leg onto of his neck as he couldn’t breathe and Floyd repeatedly told the office that he couldn’t breathe put the police officers thought he was lying but he wasn’t and then he died, when he was getting arrested.





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