When Barack Obama declared his presidential campaign, all the racism you read about in previous chapters emerged. A furious search for his birth certificate was premised on the claim that he was secretly an immigrant from Africa. He had to resign from Trinity United Church of Christ, where his pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, a graduate of historically Black Howard University who served in the Marine Corps and the navy, preached radical “Black liberation theology.” Obama was accused of being a Muslim, consorting with radical left-wing extremists, and being anti-white. He was not a “real”
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