Tony Norman - Prof criticizing Obama shows own flaws

Mr. West, it is fair to say, has been nursing some anger at President Barack Obama ever since he was "stiffed" on inauguration tickets. Recently, he laid out a devastating critique of the president at a news commentary website, Truthdig, that veered from a reasonable attack on administration policies to blistering ad hominem:

"I think my dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men," Mr. West told interviewer Chris Hedges. "It's understandable. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He is as human as I am, but that is his cultural formation.

"When he meets an independent black brother, it is frightening. And that's true for a white brother. ... Obama, coming out of Kansas influence, white, loving grandparents, coming out of Hawaii and Indonesia, when he meets these independent black folks who have a history of slavery, Jim Crow, Jane Crow and so on, he is very apprehensive. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination. It is understandable."



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How racist is that?

Rhetorical... jic...