Greg Palast: The Day the President Turned Black (But has he turned back?)

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Greg Palast: The Day the President Turned Black (But has he turned back?)

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Submitted by BuzzFlash on Thu, 07/30/2009 - 9:02am.

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by Greg Palast

He's in hot water now. For a moment on national television, the President of the United States turned black!

Last week, when his buddy "Skip" Gates got busted for being Black in Boston, Barack Obama forgot his official role: to soothe America's conscience with the happy fairy tale that his election marked the end of racism in the USA.

Instead, Obama, the excruciatingly middle-of-the-road President, was seized by Barack the militant State Senator from the South Side of Chicago, who reminded us that cops bust Black guys for no goddamn good reason all the goddamn time.