Alton Maddox: The Meaning of Obama in the White House
The lesson to be learned is that any favorable overture to Blacks is disfavored in the United States. [Barack] Obama knows enough about presidential politics to realize that the fair treatment of Blacks is its third rail .U.S. presidents have always played the race card.... The ruling class, which is bent on maintaining the status quo, at best, has three tools in its arsenal to keep Obama in check — assassination, impeachment and disbarment. William McKinley was also assassinated in office and Andrew Johnson was impeached. The White House is the hot seat....Even if Obama decides to flirt with being a sacrificial lamb for advancing Black rights, he will also have to sidestep the separation of powers doctrine and the states’ rights doctrine. Dixiecrats will insist on an expanded role for states’ rights. This is natural for people who love the acquisition of power.