‘My Silence Ends Here’

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The cry of “Yes You Can” led Barack Obama to the U.S. presidency in 2008. He constantly repeated it in his campaign events and promised what, until then, seemed impossible: that an African-American would occupy the White House in a country with a long history of racism and discrimination. But the phrase was not new. Decades earlier, in the 1960s and 1970s, it had been used in protests for the rights of peasants in California and had been attribu…