The essay “Obama!!!” is about David Sedaris, and how he describes the experiences, he has had trough discussions with different kind of people about race issues in America. David Sedaris stays in a little village in Normandy. Throughout his stay in the Normandy, Sedaris experiences many prejudices towards the American the population. However, this is not the first he has experienced such things. Throughout many of his travels outside the USA, there are a lot of prejudices, when it comes to the Americans. Throughout the essay, Sedaris often refers to the local newspapers in the regions he visits, and comments on their view on the American politics. At the time when Obama was in the run for presidential election, a woman named Mary Beth, who is a friend of David Sedaris was asked, if she as a white woman from the States, would vote for a black man as their future president. Examples like this and racial issues, is the main topic of the essay “Obama!!!”
David Sedaris’ writing style is very personal, as he tells the reader about himself, but at the same time he still manages to talk about something, many readers can relate to, for an example: “.....Statements like this make me queasy, but they’re really no worse than the often heard “How could I be racist when my first boyfriend was black?” My first boyfriend was black as well, but that doesn’t prove I’m colour blind, just that I like big butts.” (p. 2 l. 60-63) In this specific quote, Sedaris shares one his personal consequences of being homosexual, and how people without any kind of respect or sympathy, reacts and generalises all homosexual, which is the same in the following quote: “Everyone was an expert, and what they all knew was this: Americans are racist.” (p. 2 l. 56-57). By time people have been so affected by stuff like the medias, that they in a “natural” way have developed so many prejudices against other people, groups and countries.
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