WRA 130 Andrew Colannino

Of course, Obama is the perfect person to give this speech. Not just because they are both history-changing African Americans, but that they also have the same drive and power to change the world for the better. President Obama did a great job focusing on Mandela's great achievements in South Africa and emphasized his superb leadership traits. Obama also compared Mandela to other great risk takers in history, such as Gandhi and MLK. Mandela was very smart and realized the importance of reason and developing an argument in order to persuade others beacuse change is not possible without this. He also learned the language of his oppressors knowing that he would need it in the future to fight the existing laws. He also believed in understanding both sides of the arguement, so he studied his agressors arguements against him and his cause. I like how Obama listed all his traits and showed how what he has done will not die with him but live on because it changed the world forever.