blog post #3 revised

Everyone thought that Barack Obama a was the first black person running for president, in In 1904 a guy named George Edwin Taylor had his eye on the white house and wanted to run for president and that what he did. Running for president is very hard for a lot of people but mostly colored people, George Edwin Taylor a son of an African American salve had that problem. George Taylor was a trouble child growing up and also an orphan and an independent man was running for president.

George Taylor wanted to show everyone that he was serious and that anyone can run for president, even though you are not r acknowledgeecognize or accepted because of your race. In 1904 a black independent party called the national liberty nominated George Taylor to run for president on a third-party ticket. Even though George Taylor was a trouble child when he was younger and didn’t know much about the world but he was a good man wanted to make the world better.

George Taylor did an interview on why he decided to launch a presidential campaign, this is what he says ‘’yesyes I know white folks toke me as a joke but I want to tell you the colored do not give him credit for seeing. He’s beginning to take of his own interests and what’s more that he has the power to do it.’’ George also discovered that that neither the democratic nor the republic party represented the interests of people color, Theodore Roosevelt was re-elected as president still Taylor ran symbolized the growth of political that black Americans acquired following the reconstruction era. Mr. Taylor wanted to show everyone that and one can run for president.