Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Was Barack Obama The First African American President? Critique of Ta-Nehisi Coates (Video) | EURweb


http://africandiasporaleaders.com/jessejackson/ After African American voters turned out in record numbers, did President Obama Deliver on the exchange? From its inception, the term African-American was created as a cultural safe haven for the progeny of American slaves. The classification is the marker of a connection that black Americans lost with Africa when their forefathers were brought to America in chains. The above video discussion looks both to President Obama’s origins from East Africa- Kenya, to his ancestral lineage from his mother’s side of the family tree. Carnell and Moore delve into the data on the Obama years, from looking at Obama in context of the transatlantic slave trade, to reviewing the contextual meaning of Barack Obama inheriting $480,908 worth of Bank of Hawaii stock from his white maternal grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, who was a vice president of the bank. This type of wealth transfer in stock is one that rarely occurs in black American homes due to a lega
http://www.eurweb.com/2016/12/barack-obama-first-african-american-president-critique-ta-nehisi-coates-video/#

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