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- 18 -This brings us back to Barack Obama and the other ‘Talented-Tenth’. From an conscious Africanperspective, Barack Obama has been extremely good to White folks, especially to those who call him a ‘Nigger’. This is the story we are told isn’t worth reporting and the mainstream news has done its level best tokeep these issues in the background. Racism against the Obama White House and its First Family is at an alltime high, but you would never guess that listening to the Obama administration. The evening news rarelylooks at blatant racism in the United States as anything other than an afterthought. Brief, uncharacteristicpauses in an otherwise race-neutral system of unacknowledged, yet very real, White privilege.One does not need to be a sociologist or a mathematician to perceive a sinister and highly consistent patternof harm under the watchful eye of the White establishment. The observations mentioned above are oftendismissed with either the eugenicist argument or the social Apartheid rationalisation, nature vs environment toexplain why non-White ‘fail’. Both are conjectural theories of the Euro-settler neurosis that inspired thistragedy in the first place. Focus is instead redirected towards study of the symptoms of racism rather than itscauses. These systemic social disparities are routinely ignored in favour of blaming the victims of racism forthe very existence of the racial bias itself. An ideology we have seen and heard before.The main mistake most people make is in assuming that all fascisms look and function exactly the same.Interestingly, it was a US military officer and practising Satanist who first pointed out that American-stylefascism would wear a business suit and speak glowingly in terms of economic freedoms and the nationalmythology of ’1776’. The classic stereotype of the jack-booted thug has been replaced by way of goodpropaganda and historic revisionism with popular cultural heroes passing themselves off as righteouslypatriotic ‘Defenders of the People’. Once Ronald Reagan attained the presidency, it was clear to thepredatory capitalists backing him that sober-minded White Americans were more than willing to vote interms of celebrity, soundbites and the ‘Big Lie’, not political competency, accountability or ethical fortitude.And ever since that fateful day in 1981, the United States has slowly grown to accept the slide towardsfull-scale fascism attractively packaged with bully-boy Americana.This is a problem only some in White America are willing to discuss. Even amongst what laughingly accountsfor the ‘left’. But the larger issue concerning how such a far-right socio-political paradigm shift could exist inthe 21st century under a Black president however is not up for discussion. Not even within the mainstreamUS African community.Virtually no one working the mainstream media beat has seen fit to connect White America’s history ofinstitutional anti-African racism to their dumbfounded amazement that a Black male raised in the UnitedStates actually had the discipline, intelligence and self-confidence to become chief executive of the entirecountry. I wish to stress here that the White Racist backlash against Barack Obama is not a one-sided affair.Members of his own party were just as keen to insult him as were his political enemies. Even democratHillary Clinton, who unquestionably fabricated a major hoax during the 2008 campaign, released acommercial suggesting that Obama ‘Might not answer that "3 a.m. Phone Call" playing on traditionalEuro-settler racist attitudes about ‘lazy Blacks’.Truth be told, Africans in the US haven’t acted much better. In one sense, the desire to see someone wholooks like us in a position of political power has blinded the masses into giving the Obama administration apass to carry on the very same social and political abuses we have been dealing with for more than 500