Obama the Healer
The Next President and a Post-Colonial Worldview
Barack Obama wrote in "Dreams From My Father" of his days as a student at Occidental College, groping for his political identity: "We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night, in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Frantz Fanon, Eurocentrism and patriarchy."
That's one of the passages from his autobiography that has fueled conspiracy theories among right-wing bloggers. They speak of Obama as if he's a tool of Third World ...
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For all his analytical genius and pragmatic brilliance, Obama's greatest promise resides in exceptional moral leadership. Mr. Ignatius is right: Obama should review the suffering and moral outrage in Fanon's The Wretched Earth. I'd add Kant on human dignity, Plato on Socrates, and the Gospel authors on Jesus.