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February 8, 2008

New Video: Barack Obama - White Power in Black Face

"He hasn't said the word black out of his mouth, not even to talk about the color of his suit or his shoes! He cannot address the suffering of African people."

Check out this first in an ongoing series of vignettes by African People's Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela on the U.S. presidential candidacy of Barack Obama.

Omali Yeshitela

Dynamic and powerful speaker, brilliant theoretician, Chairman of the African People's Socialist Party, founder of The Burning Spear newspaper which has published continuously since the 60s.

Author of the powerful new book, One Africa! One Nation!

40 years of bold leadership and unwavering commitment to the struggle for the self-determination of the African community.

Formerly known as Joseph Waller, the fiery young leader of the Junta of Militant Organizations (JOMO) in the 1960s, Omali Yeshitela is today a veteran in the struggle for African freedom, giving continuity and experience to the liberation movement of African people as it rebuilds into the 21st Century.

A ground-breaking theoretician and riveting speaker, Yeshitela contends that African and other oppressed people s whose labor and resources form the pedestal upon which the wealth of the western world rests, are now in a strategic position to lead the way out of today's economic and social crisis. He has forged a practical strategy for African liberation that was hailed by leaders from Zaire, Rwanda, Ivory Coast, South African and England at the 1997 conference of the African Socialist International.

In the U.S., Chairman Omali Yeshitela has built the African People's Socialist Party (APSP), founded in 1972 to "Complete the Black Revolution". Since that time the APSP has established Uhuru House black community organizing centers around the country; founded the National People's Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) to defend the democratic rights of the African community; and built economic institutions controlled by and benefiting the African working class, such as Uhuru's Black Gym of Our Own in St. Petersburg, Florida, the APSP's national headquarters.

Following the October, 1997 police murder of African motorist Tyron Lewis in St. Petersburg, the InPDUM has built a model for successful community-based struggle to stop police brutality, including the building of an African American Leadership Coalition of which Yeshitela is a member. Chairman Omali also serves as an advocate for the intersts of African working and poor people on the Citizen's Advisory Commission established by the-HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros to administer federal grant monies in the wake of the last fall's two African community rebellions. According to Cisneros, Omali Yeshitela is "a person who touches livesin a serious way. I found him a thoughtful person who had some important things to say."

Chairman Omali Yeshitela is available for interviews and speaking engagements. Contact Burning Spear Tours at 727-894-6997 or info@burningspearuhuru.com