Black Activists Call Prez Obama “White Power in Black Face”
On November - 10 - 2009
Labeling Barack Obama as “white power in black face,” a group of about 200 African-Americans marched on the White House Saturday to protest policies of the first black US president, and demand an end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, reports AFP.
Then President, George Bush and Barack Obama
The first public demonstration by African Americans against the Obama administration since his historic inauguration in January saw blacks criticizing the president for continuing what they described as Washington’s “imperialist” agenda around the world.
“We recognize that Barack Hussein Obama is white power in black face,” civil rights activist Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the Black is Back coalition which arranged the protest, called into a megaphone as the group marched outside the mansion’s gates. “He is a tool of our imperialist enemies and we demand our freedom. And we demand that Obama withdraw all the troops from Afghanistan right now.”
Protesters also called for Obama to order troops out of Iraq and to scrap Africom, the controversial year-old United States Africa Command, and demanded “hands off” Venezuela and ends to the Cuba embargo and the Zimbabwe blockade.
The group also was calling for the release of former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted in 1982 of killing a white police officer and sentenced to death. The US Supreme Court upheld Abu-Jamal’s conviction in April and rejected his bid for a new trial.
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