Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media : The Return of the Nigger Breakers
ISBN: 9780981240596 | 0981240593
Format: Trade BookPublisher: Baraka Books
Pub. Date: 5/3/2010
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For Ishmael Reed, Barack Obama, like Michelangelo's St. Anthony, is a tormented man, haunted by modern reincarnations of the demonic spirits used to break slaves. These were the 'Nigger Breakers''men like Edward Covey, who was handed the job of breaking Frederick Douglass. 'Isn't it ironic,' writes Reed: 'A media that scolded the Jim Crow South in the 1960s now finds itself hosting the bird.' In this collection, which includes several unpublished essays, Ishmael Reed brings to bear his grasp of the four-centuries-long African-American experience as he turns his penetrating gaze on Barack Obama's election and first year in power'establishing himself as the conscience of a country that was once moved by Martin Luther King's dream.
| Foreword | p. 13 |
| Introduction | p. 29 |
| Goin' Old South On Obama | |
| Ma and Pa Clinton Flog Uppity Black Man | p. 41 |
| The Crazy Rev. Wright | p. 61 |
| Springtime for Benedict and Sarah | p. 73 |
| The Big Let Down | |
| Obama Scolds Black Fathers, Gets Bounce in Polls | p. 101 |
| McCain Gurgles in the Slime | p. 111 |
| Boogiemen |
Ishmael Reed is an important American poet, novelist, playwright, and song writer who has taught at Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, and the University of CaliforniaBerkeley. He is author of Japanese by Spring, The Terrible Twos, and Writin' Is Fightin: Thirty-seven Years of Boxing on Paper. He lives in Oakland, California.
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