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DECRYING Barack Obama as "white power in black face", hundreds of
African Americans marched on the White House today 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 recognise 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 Mr 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 70s,
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," Mr Baron said.
"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 said.
"To have a black person exploiting me just like a white person, that's
no easier pain."
The group also called 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 per cent of US citizens are African Americans.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/african-americans-march-ag...
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Looks like BO is not far enough to the Left for some!
