OBAMA GUILTY of BEING PRESIDENT WHILE BLACK examines how the
shadows of oppressive Jim Crow laws played a role in the
hate spewed towards the 44th President of the United States.
The role of race and gender was front and center during the
presidential campaign. How a woman was used as a human
shield by the Republicans is also clearly illustrated.
Barack Obama received a mandate in the general election. A
few months later, it was a curious sight to witness people
gathered around town hall meeting sites bearing signs
depicting the President as Hitler, socialist or a tyrant.
Some even carried guns and a pastor prayed that Obama would
die. A Republican Congressman even called President Obama a
liar on national television during his health-care speech to
a joint session of CongressThere was something much deeper
at play with President Obama and it centered on his race.
Find out how questions about the President's birth,
religion, economic policies and patriotism were all smoke
screens for feelings as old as the United States itself.
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