Blacks in Europe Eagerly Anticipating Obama’s Overseas Travel – and His Future Presidency

By: Jackie Jones, BlackAmericaWeb.com

When Barack Obama leaves this weekend for his tour of the Middle East and Europe, he is likely to attract enthusiastic crowds -- especially among black Europeans and black expatriates living abroad.

Obama tour will include Germany, France and Britain, and organizers there are expecting a massive turnout for the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

“The Obama presidency slowly becoming reality is exciting because it marks a break from ‘politics as usual,’” Miles Marshall Lewis, an author who moved to Paris from Harlem in 2004, told BlackAmericaWeb.com. “Obama doesn't belong to the good-ol'-boy network of politicians who succeed through nepotism or race privilege. As a brother of color, I would expect his foreign policy to be more empathic to the interests of other cultures internationally.”

Lewis, who wrote "Scars..." and "There's a Riot Goin' On," is working on a memoir about being a black American male in 21st century Paris. Lewis married a French woman in 2006, and their two sons were born in France and hold dual nationality. He said he and his family plan to return to the U.S. in a few years, but that could change.

“My original plans were to return to American in 2011, but should Obama win in November, I may go back next year. Living under the Obama administration will be history in the making that I wouldn't want to miss,” Lewis told BlackAmericaWeb.com.

Blacks in Europe Eagerly Anticipating Obama’s Overseas Travel – and His Future Presidency....