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Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media : The Return of the Nigger Breakers

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ISBN: 9780981240596 | 0981240593
Format: Trade Book
Publisher: Baraka Books
Pub. Date: 5/3/2010

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
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 In this collection, which includes several unpublished essays, Ishmael Reed brings to bear his grasp of the four-centuries-long African-American experience as he turns his penetrating gaze on Barack Obama's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.
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Forewordp. 13
Introductionp. 29
Goin' Old South On Obama
Ma and Pa Clinton Flog Uppity Black Manp. 41
The Crazy Rev. Wrightp. 61
Springtime for Benedict and Sarahp. 73
The Big Let Down
Obama Scolds Black Fathers, Gets Bounce in Pollsp. 101
McCain Gurgles in the Slimep. 111
Boogiemen
How Lee Atwater Perfected the GOP's Appeal to Racismp. 117
The Promised Land?
Morning in Obamericap. 127
A Tale of Two Callahans The Irish Black Thingp. 133
Finally Came The Inaugural
The Inaugural and My Coffee Pot Searchp. 141
How Henry Louis Gates Got Ordained As The Nation's Leading Black Intellectual
Post-Race Scholar Yells Racismp. 159
Why The Media And The General Public Bought Sgt. Crowley's Lie
Let's All Have a Beerp. 171
Obama Souljahs On, Africa This Timep. 185
From Jubilation at Election Night… To Cries of Kill Himp. 193
Afterword Obama, Tiger, Vick, MJ, etc. Is There Any Cure of Negro Mania?p. 219
Appendix Poll Shows the Jim Crow Media is Barack Obama's Chief Opponentp. 245
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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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