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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 'œNigger Breakers''”men like Edward Covey, who was handed the job of breaking Frederick Douglass. 'œIsn't it ironic,' writes Reed: 'œA 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 In this collection, which includes several unpublished essays, Ishmael Reed brings to bear his grasp of the four-centuries-long African-American experience as he turns his penetrating gaze on Barack Obama's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.

Ishmael Reed is an important American poet, novelist, playwright, and song writer who has taught at Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, and the University of California–Berkeley. 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.

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
How Lee Atwater Perfected the GOP's Appeal to Racism	p. 117
The Promised Land?
Morning in Obamerica	p. 127
A Tale of Two Callahans The Irish Black Thing	p. 133
Finally Came The Inaugural
The Inaugural and My Coffee Pot Search	p. 141
How Henry Louis Gates Got Ordained As The Nation's ôLeading Black Intellectualö
Post-Race Scholar Yells Racism	p. 159
Why The Media And The ôGeneral Publicö Bought Sgt. Crowley's Lie
Let's All Have a Beer	p. 171
Obama Souljahs On, Africa This Time	p. 185
From Jubilation at Election Night… To Cries of Kill Him	p. 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 Opponent	p. 245
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Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media The Return of the Nigger Breakers

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

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