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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Mr. Obama has enough on his plate with the general economy, the war on terrorism and US Health Care. Mr. Ignatius's attempt to divine a possible path for our new President by dragging in what he feels is our perceived appearance of Colonialism and Fanon's view from the 1960's is thin at best. So far Barrack has done a very good job re-appointing an experienced staff, lets see how they all get along. He can be the Dali-bama in a year or two, his first duty is to the USA.