Barack Obama's triumph was clapped a lot for many peoples in Brazil of differents social classes, professions, beliefs and parties. His victory represents a new age in afro and afro-descendant history. Now It's possible to say that any children, youth, man and woman can assure that theirs perspectives can be different. More than five centuries of racism, intolerance, discrimination-not only of black people its useful to say - is now step by step rubbed of minds, social structures, policys, cultural products. Any boy or girl in some of the poorest countries in Africa ou even in North America ou Brazil for example can look at Obama's figure in Tv set, or in photos and think "Yes, I can". Now nobody that cultivate racists taughts can argue against this fact: Obama, afro-descendant american, child of an intercultural union, highly educated, is the first black president of a country that has a shameful historic of racism and segregation.
Obama has a special conecction with Brazil - with brazilian culture, specifically. In his biography Dreams from my father, Obama tells that his mother(Ann Dunhann) take contact with Brazil and afro-descendant culture wathcing "Black Orpheus" a movie based on the heteronimous Vinicius de Moraes' play. Vinicius de Moraes was a poet, diplomat, bossa-nova song composer that criated well-known sambas like Girl from Ipanema (Garota de Ipanema in partnership with Tom Jobin) and Afternoon in Itapoan (Tarde em Itapoâ). According with Obama's biography,after comtemplate the movie , his mother went to university in Havai and begin a relationship with a economy strudent named Barack Obama who was Obama's father and from this relatioship culminated in new-american president's birth. In his youth, Obama watched with his mother during her visit the film "Black Orpheus", which he confessed boring. While the exhibition when he looked at his mother's face he could contemplate her marvelled expression. After that date, his could understand her complicity with black culture, that trespassed conventions, prejudices and tabus.