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4. The Pale Reflection: Barack Obama, MLK and the Meaning of the Black Revolution
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=149&Itemid=34

by Paul Street
March 21,2007

-"One of the dirty little secrets about Obama is that he owes no small part of his popularity with many whites to the fact that many Caucasians don't think of the biracial Senator as being "all that black" (5)."

"Obama's book refers to the United States' rapacious, savagely unequal and fundamentally ‘materialist' capitalist economy as the nation's ‘greatest asset.



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