by Mike Dorning
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Barack Obama today will offer the possibility of his own election to the White House as a potential signal moment to inspire black schoolchildren and his life story as evidence of his determination to achieve better educational opportunities for minorities.
Obama is to travel to a courthouse in Manning, S.C. where black parents filed one of the four lawsuits challenging segregated schools that ultimately led to the Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court decision that began desegregation. According to his campaign, Obama will call for a new commitment to fix dilapidated schools, recruit new teachers and reform the educational system.
“Just imagine what we could do as partners in an Obama administration,” Obama will say, according to excerpts released in advance by his campaign.
“Imagine a President who was raised like I was by a single mom who had to work and go to school and raise her kids and accept food stamps for a while. Imagine a President who could go into Holly Courts Apartments here in Manning or Scott’s Branch High School in Summerton,(S.C.) and give the young men and women there someone to look up to. Imagine a President who fought each day to narrow the gap between the world as it is and the world as it should be,” Obama will add.