As a concerned black American male I find Hank De Zutter’s story “What Makes Obama Run?” (December 8) quite revealing in terms of what we can expect from young African-American political leaders like Obama, as we approach the year 2000.
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In Franz Faron’s brilliant book “White Skin Black Mask” he dabbles with the effects of colonialization and the colonized mind. I see kinship with Barack Obama’s arrival in Chicago. He writes as if he has undergone some metamorphic change after returning from Harvard. In the same context of black Martinican students returning from France. Faron started that that the students returning home to Martinique seemed to had undergone an almost baptismal transformation. They now viewed their home from French eyes.
I hope that Barack Obama, as he runs as a Democratic for the 13th District on the South side, will reevaluate some of his political views. I also feel that despite his naivete he is a good, sincere, and passionate organizer that will carry a voice downstate. How that voice will affect a mean-spirited Republican congress is anybody’s guess.
John H. Sibley
