Mia Love, the Obama of the Republican Party?
PHOTO: Mia Love - First Haitian-American in Congress
KREYOL :: Men Nouvel... Mia Love, Haitienne ki fek elu nan parlement Ozetazini a, yo di li se OBAMA parti Republicain an... Ohhh Yerrrrr??? Se konsa wi bagay yo te komanse pou Obama epi kelke ane plus tard, ou tande: Mr President!!! --- Kisa-w panse de sa?
Read this except from an article by AFP...
Even her name is media friendly. Mia Love instantly became the darling of the Republican Party on Wednesday, after being elected as its first black female member of Congress...
She has also rapidly drawn comparisons with Barack Obama, not least since she wowed her party's 2012 national convention with a tale of rags-to-political-riches, much like the young Senator Obama did in 2004.
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I suppose so if we consider Jean Francois and George Biassou had both achieved very high status in the then Spanish Army. The comparison to Barack Obama could have also been made to Toussaint Louverture and Michael Jean, Frederick Douglass and Booker T Washington, etc...; individuals who have broken ranks from simply being free blacks to achieve a status of prominence through politics.
Their success is testimony to the existence of the possibility to be something more than mere simple simons and to rise above the
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