On October 9, 2009 my main man, Barack Obama, received the Nobel Peace Prize. The president himself was shocked when he realized he won the award. The Nobel Peace Prize is an honarable award but it doesn’t get as much publicity as it should. Barack Obama joined many other influential leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Mother Theresa. I would imagine him joining this group would give him some type of air time. Although he isn’t the first president to win the award, he is the first african-american president to win the award. I watch the news every morning before school and work, I heard one very short segment about it. This is the man that is running our country, i would think we would be proud that a man from the United States won such prestige award.
In my opinion, it all goes back to us not having our priorities together as americans. We seem to put a lot more emphasis on events that don’t matter and don’t recognize what does. I also feel if he wasn’t an african-american president there would be much more coverage on this story. However, I expected this story to get lots of coverage just for the simple fact that he is an african-american man.
