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 My name is Charles Karim Diggs. I'm calling from Pennsylvania state prison, SCI Phoenix. The name of my essay is "Somewhere in Your Lifetime." America has experienced the African-American president, our first. Our parents used to tell us one day there would be a black president, but not in their lifetime. I used to wonder why would they believe such nonsense? Once President Obama was elected, I considered it the most brilliant political move ever made in my lifetime. I thought his election was planned to remove the argument about racism and Americans could say there was no more racism in America, let's all get along. The thing is, us Africian-Americans believed having an African-American president would make substantial changes affecting african-Americans.  American people have made progress in many areas: change is part of redeeming itself on the history of American slavery, apartheid, Jim Crow, lynching, and economic power—slavery never ceased. The Mississippi plan of action instituted a modified system of