Barack Obama’s original sin: America’s post-racial illusion |
Barack Obama’s original sin: America’s post-racial illusion
The Guardian
2017-01-13
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Assistant Professor of African American Studies
Princeton University
Illustration by Joe Magee
Barack Obama’s refusal to use his position as president to intervene on behalf of African Americans is a stain on his record many activists will never forget
In the first hours of the new year in 2009, just weeks before Barack Obama was to be inaugurated as the next president, shots rang out in Oakland, California. A transit officer named Johannes Mehserle shot an unarmed 22-year-old black man who lay face-down in handcuffs on a public transportation platform. His name was Oscar Grant…
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