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How Can Blacks Love Obama So Much When They're Doing So Bad?
Yvette Carnell
03 Apr 2013
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Is there a disconnect between the actual economic well-being of African Americans and their uncritical, unconditional love for their first black president? Your Black World's Yvette Carnell interviews Pascal Robert.

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