ONE of the more endearing, and sure to be enduring, stories of the recent US presidential election was that of Amanda Jones, the 109-year-old African American who voted for Barack Obama.
The daughter of a slave, she has lived through the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, and will hopefully – after he is sworn in next January – also live to see a black man in the White House.
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