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http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/citizen.asp
To those who are posting on this site and others that Barack Obama cannot win the election because he is not a citizen, please check the above link on snopes.com. Hawaii became a state in 1959 (it's Hawaii's birthday today!). Barack was born there two years later. His mother already was a natural-born citizen of the US. His father's citizenship status is irrelevant - actually, so is his mom's, as Barack himself was born in the USA.
Thrasher mentions that there are no holocaust museums to commemorate the violent injustices done to Blacks. I realize that this museum would be better known if it were located in New York or Atlanta, but Milwaukee, Wisconsin, does have a wonderful place, America's Black Holocaust Museum. If you're ever in the Midwest, it would be worth a trip to check it out. The replica slave ship, the area devoted to lynching, and the other artifacts of slavery are chilling. The rest of the changing exhibits are also terrific, though not typically focussed on slavery and lynching but rather on art, photography, crafts, and much more. The museum's founder, James Cameron, was the only known survivor of a lynching and used to tell his story in person to visitors. (You can still see a film about the incident, although Dr. Cameron really made it come to life.) Here's the link: http://www.blackholocaustmuseum.org/
