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‘Eye on Africa’ by Venise Grossmann presents Dr. Chika A. Onyeani, author of controversial book, Capitalist Nigger: The Road to Success. 

Obama’s white family has as much claim to him as he has allowed us to have 100% claim to him.  Why shouldn’t they?  He speaks of his single teenage mother raising him, and then taken over by his white grandparents.  Hence the anger that the late mother would have felt about the pirahnic frenzy with which so-called angry white women are attacking her son.  For God’s sake she was his mother.  A single mother abandoned by her black husband when she was only 20 years old.  But she didn’t break down and raise a vagabond as a son.  Not only did she not break down, she on the contrary achieved a stellar career that allowed her to influence the lives of the indigent, achieving her Ph.D. in the process.

One of the world’s most famous writers, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison, once described former President Bill Clinton as America’s first Black President.  In her eloquent defense of the President during the worst period of his presidency, in the October, 1998 New Yorker Magazine, Morrison said of Clinton

Years ago, in the middle of the Whitewater investigation, one heard the first murmurs: white skin notwithstanding, this is our first black President. Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children’s lifetime. After all, Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald’s-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas.

Here’s the whole article. The united and unflinching support of African-Americans during the McCarthy-era like investigation of Clinton saved his presidency. Read More

“Just as millions of white Americans looked the other way or acquiesced as hundreds of blacks were lynched in the deep South, there is the concerted effort to provoke a backlash against Obama’s candidacy and momentum.  You know how ironic this is:  America has spent almost a trillion dollars fighting the war in Iraq, a trillion that could have been used in providing better health care, jobs, school funding, etc. for the so-called blue-collar workers who are being wooed by the right-wing Jim Crow lynch mob.  But now the ascendant concern of many of these people is the condemnable statements of a pastor, not the recession, not the imploding stock market, not the mortgage crash, As Obama said, in four years, there will be another distraction and the problems would continue to pile unresolved.”