The White Black President: Barack Obama's Struggle to Keep His Soul

By Richard Crasta

Why is a once improbable Romney presidency getting closer to a real possibility? Because, suggests the author, Obama has lost touch with who he really is, and over-compromised himself in his passion to be a two-term president, and to impress white people as a black man they need not be afraid of, who is nonthreatening, who is like them in every way but his skin color. Analyzing Obama's identity problem, the author then suggests what Obama must do to win, not just the White House, but far more important, history's verdict as a great and visionary leader.

The book, coming from one among millions of disappointed and once-passionate Obama supporters, gives a highly personal and therefore original perspective to suggest how Obama's dilution of his original self might have weakened his support from his core constituency.

Despite there being hundreds of books on the subject of race, most readers have admitted that the author's book "Impressing the Whites" is quite unique. This book is published in the hope that the same is true for this book, despite all that has already been written on Obama.

By the author of 12 books of fiction, nonfiction, humor, biography, and essays.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Richard Crasta
• Release date: Oct 20, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301527267

Richard Crasta

Richard Crasta is the India-born, long-time New York-resident author of "The Revised Kama Sutra: A Novel" and 12 other books, with at least 12 more conceived or in progress. "The Revised Kama Sutra," a novel about a young man growing up and making sense of the world and of sex, was described by Kurt Vonnegut as "very funny," and has been published in ten countries and in seven languages.Richard's books include fiction, nonfiction, essays, autobiography, humor, and satire with a political edge: anti-censorship, non-pc, pro-laughter, pro-food, pro-beer, and against fanaticism of any kind. His books have been described as "going where no Indian writer has gone before," and attempt to present an unedited, uncensored voice (James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, and Philip Roth are among the novelists who have inspired him.).Richard was born and grew up in India, joined the Indian Administrative Service, then moved to America to become a writer, and has traveled widely. Though technically still a New York resident, he spends most of his time in Asia working on his books in progress and part-time as a freelance book editor.

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The White Black President

Obama’s Struggle to Keep His Soul

Richard Crasta

Copyright 2012 by Richard Crasta

Published at Smashwords

Richard Crasta is the author of twelve other books, including literary fiction, nonfiction, humor, and essays.

Author’s website: http://www.richardcrasta.com

All rights reserved by the author and by the publisher, Invisible Man Press, New York.

Brief Praise for Richard Crasta’s Other Books

(More Praise at the end of the book)

The Revised Kama Sutra

Very funny—Kurt Vonnegut

Humorous and irrepressibly manic.—The Independent, UK

Hilarious and delicate.—The Face, U.K.

Indefatigable good humor . . . considerable charm.—Publishers Weekly

He may be our best humorist ever. Very, very funny.—Business Standard.

Beauty Queens, Children and the Death of Sex

Classy humor. Get it.—Femina

Impressing the Whites

The reader laughs, squirms, recognizes his/her own hypocrisy and the blatant absurdity of most unquestioned social conventions. In this, Crasta succeeds in ways not unlike Sasha Baron Cohen's Borat character or Chris Rock race routines succeed, i.e., brilliantly.—Frank Feldman, Amazon 5-star review.

Table of Contents

The White-Black President: Why Obama My Lose, and What He Must Do

Why Obama Won’t Win (2008)

A Proud Obamerican

Advice to Obama from a Tanned-American

Obama’s Disappointing Color Blindness

The King Who Won, Then Lost His Crown

Other Books By the Author

Praise for the Author’s Other Books

The White-Black President

Why Obama May Lose, and What He Must Do To Save Himself

My skin is brown; both my mother and father were brownskinned persons from Southwestern India. And I will never be able to fully understand what it means to have one white mother and one white father, to have white grandparents and relatives who along with your white mother raise you and educate you while you are almost never in touch with your black relatives by blood, and to be then viewed by the world, and to constantly declare yourself to it, as a black man. When black and white Americans say, with pride, "He is our first black president!" I find myself thinking: You mean he is our first white-black president! (A Dutch friend said to me: Your first black president?! He doesn’t seem too black to me!)

But at other times, I do accept the conventional labeling of him as a black president (thankfully, this issue will become increasingly irrelevant if, as I suggest in Impressing the Whites, an active anti-racist policy encourages mixed-race marriages). But if he is a black president, or at least partly black and almost certainly subjected to some racial profiling in his younger years, I wonder why, in the entire four years of his presidency, he has managed to avoid the R-word; and why, during his presidency, even the use of the R-word is looked down upon, and may often become a cause for disapproval