Commentary: I’m young and Black. Barack Obama is not my hero
His politics have always been those of a cautious centrist.
By Malik PitchfordTribune News Service
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Barack Obama has spent the past several weeks months promoting his political memoir, “A Promised Land.” But the former president’s messaging is out of touch, tone-deaf and indicative of his personal and class interests.
Barack Obama speaks at an Oct. 31 rally in Detroit on behalf of then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. The former president pushes narratives of respectability that are unlike the ideals of “hope,” “change” and “progress” that he ran on in 2008.
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