Obama Showed Us: Black Capitalism Won’t Free Us

So what will?

Barack Obama is often remembered as a symbol of progress as the first Black American president, a liberal icon, and a figure many credit with hope and change. But symbolism is not the same as liberation.

Here we examine how Black liberal capitalism, American imperialism, and respectability politics thrived under the Obama era, and why representation without structural change ultimately failed Black people and the Global South.

This video is about what real liberation demands, and what symbolism can never replace.