A Compelling Social Issue: An Essay

This is an essay I wrote in the summer of 2008 for a college English assignment. We were to pick a social issue to write an advocacy essay on. Originally I choose to write about the future possibility of electing Obama for president. This was just a few months before, what ended up as President Obama's first term. I was forbidden to write about Obama, by my professor. (I found out later my professor was a Communist.) He begged me to conform with everyone else, and just write about something like GMO's, or Climate Change, or something normal like that. But I was determined. I managed to write about the social issue that concerned me, without mentioning the forbidden name of Obama. And this is the result of that essay, which by the way, earned me an A-, even after I was told I would fail the class if I wrote about this topic.