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Barack Obama and the Crisis of Capitalism
The Editors
02 Sep 2015
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by the editors

Glen Ford asserts that the crisis of capitalism in Black America is in large part connected to the election of Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president. Ford exposes Obama's lies and the overwhelming silence of the Black political left.

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