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Lynching Barack Obama: How Whites Tried to String Up the President
by Molefi Kete Asante

    Publication Date: Feb 04, 2016
    List Price: $29.00
    Format: Paperback, 146 pages
    Classification: Nonfiction
    ISBN13: 9780982532713
    Imprint: Universal Write Publications
    Publisher: Universal Write Publications
    Parent Company: Universal Write Publications

    Description of Lynching Barack Obama: How Whites Tried to String Up the President by Molefi Kete Asante

    Molefi Kete Asante argues that the infamous historical acts of lynching black men in the United States might be used to describe how many people of the white Right Wing have used various techniques to "string up" presidential objectives. Barack Obama as the first black President of the United States met immediate resistance from a white majority that voted for his opponent in 2008. This was repeated in 2012.

    Asante contends that whites felt that they had lost "their" country and the only way to act was to prevent Barack Obama from asserting himself as a black man. Asante shows in a compelling manner, by choosing many of the attacks on Obama found in the media, that the President was tied up, roped, and hung out to dry by the white Republican Right. Nevertheless, as Asante explains Barack Obama championed some of the most progressive actions ever addressed by a president.




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