Decrying Barack Obama as “white power in black face,” hundreds of African-Americans marched on the White House Saturday to protest policies of the first black US president, and demand that he bring US troops home.
More than 200 people gathered for the first public demonstration by African Americans against the Obama administration since his historic inauguration in January, and slammed 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.
Several demonstrators held up placards bearing messages such as “US out of Afghanistan” and “Stop US war against Iraq.”
Charles Baron, a New York city councilman and former member of the Black Panthers, a Black Power movement in the mid-1960s and 1970s, attacked the president for turning a cold shoulder to the plight of African-Americans.
“We’re not satisfied with him, and… this hope and change rap has not been a reality for black people,” Baron told AFP during the demonstration.
“We are glad that Barack Obama broke up the white male monopoly on the White House, but we were not looking for a change in the occupant of the White House from white to black, we were looking for change in foreign policies and domestic policies,” he added.
“To have a black person exploiting me just like a white person, that’s no easier pain.”
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.
Black Americans voted overwhelmingly for Democrat Obama in last year’s election, when he defeated Republican Senator John McCain.
About 13 percent of US citizens are African-Americans.
4 Comments
Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 8:30 pm
like ive said before,there are intelligent blacks.
some are not black Americans,some are just freeloading parasites who dont care if their kids have a future.they think its easier to sit on that ass and beg for whatever they can get for free,as long as they dont have to earn it.
Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 7:55 am
Come on…this is all organized.
They think if some colored people protest Obamao it will make the white majority more comfortable with him, when all the while he forces the radical black nationalist agenda forward.
Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 9:03 am
I wouldn’t say they are totally alike.. Bush has more class.
Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 1:25 pm
“Bush and Obama are the same”
WELL ERR…NOT EXACTLY:
George and Laura Bush Visit Victims of Fort Hood Shooting In Private
“Contrast that with Obama’s photo-op in Delaware. Plus: Consider Obama’s “My Pet Goat” moment in his first public response to the tragedy!
Friday night former U.S. President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush made a private visit to the victims of the massacre at Fort Hood:
The Bushes entered and departed the sprawling military facility in secret, having told the base commander they did not want press coverage of their visit, a source told Fox News.
Former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura secretly visited Fort Hood last night and spent “considerable time” consoling those who were wounded in Thursday’s shooting spree, Fox News has learned.
The Bushes entered and departed the sprawling military facility in secret, having told the base commander they did not want press coverage of their visit, a source told Fox News.
The couple was described as “deeply concerned” about military families on Fort Hood after Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly opened fire on soldiers and civilians, killing 13 and wounding 38.
The Bushes, who have a 1,600-acre property known as Prairie Chapel Ranch less than 30 miles from Fort Hood in central Texas, spent between one and two hours visiting the wounded and their families.”
FOR OTHER CONTRAST between “Doctor UTOPIA” and the former twice president of the USA, please see:
http://www.floppingaces.net/2009/11/07/george-and-laura-bush-visit-victims-of-fort-hood-shooting-in-private/