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An excellent piece "The new black politicians, what the online news magazine Black Agenda Report accurately calls  the Black 'misleadership', would reap the benefits of the racist US system while selling it to the Black electorate as a 'free country' with some racial problems that could be remedied within the 'democratic' system. This background propelled Barack Obama to the forefront of political power in the 21st century." The American republic of white supremacy Related Joseph A. Massad is the author of Islam in Liberalism

De Tocqueville and Slavery

From the history of 'liberalism' or things my American professors at university never told me The famous French political theorist and historian Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) who is known for his major work Democracy in America. "In May 1847, noting that the 'Bey of Tunisia' had already abolished the 'odious institution' [of slavery]—which in Muslim countries, by the French liberal's admission, took a 'milder' form—de Tocqueville expressed the opinion that 'we should doubtless only proceed to the abolition of slavery with care and moderation'. De Tocqueville seemed to be ready to accept a compromise even more favourable to the slaveholding South [of the U.S.]. 'As for the policy permitting slavery to develop in a whole portion of the territory where it was hitherto unknown, I will concede ... that one can do nothing but tolerate this existence in the special, current interests of the Union.' [A letter of 13 April 1857]