A Fall From Pedestal

A fall from the Pedestal And they saw this man a great orator, and he was black, in America (if not in Uganda); and people said, this man and his race know about inequality, so they made him a president and the whole world was jubilant, so much so that the forever naive Norwegian gave him a peace prize medal for peace promised...one day soon. And nothing happened, the applause stilled; on the sky more and more drones flew and the oppressed masses continued to be subjugated... and his fine oratory began sounding hollow and we came to realise you can’t judge a man by the colour of his skin, not by his silken rhetoric, but by his actions and sense of justice...