From our friends at ColorLines, a video by Jorge Rivas documenting “The Year in Race - Disasters, Deportations, and DREAMS Rising.” It’s a bleak portrait of the frustrations abound in 2010 from Tea Party antics …

Report after report and survey after survey repeatedly indicate that Islamophobia in America and Europe is on the rise, not on the decline. America can elect a Black president and delude itself into believing a post-racial society has suddenly replaced one erected on racist legacy. America does have a history of tolerance and acceptance, but an accepted discourse of Islamophobia relinquishes any hopes conjuring up “post-race” America.

We trawl the news media so you don’t have to.

Full Text of Barack Obama, President of the USA in Ghana :: Al-Jazeera English

Obama in Ghana: War a ‘millstone around Africa’s neck’ :: CNN.com

Why Africa Depends on Handouts : A contradictory message from Obama :: Al-Jazeera English

Barack Obama tells Africa to stop blaming colonialism for problems :: London Telegraph

Obama in Africa: A Major Disappointment :: The Nation

More than 5,000 Africans text message Obama :: Alternet, from Agence France Presse

As much as President Obama’s speech in Cairo has been branded as one “to the Muslim world”-whatever that might mean-it is certainly a speech whose audience spanned across a much larger swath of the world. In terms of signaling substantive policy changes for the peoples of that world, there is not much to count on. Much of the lip service is the same as that of the Bush era. We are not fighting Islam, but rather extremists-yes, Bush said that. We want the Muslim world to prosper-yes, Bush said that. We care about the oppressed sectors of your society-women, religious minorities, etc. Yes, Bush said that too. The main difference thus far is that not enough time has yet passed for the disparity between words and action to become irreconcilable (the disparity between words and words, though, is another story, as Obama dubbed the misogynist and racist monarch of Saudi Arabia to be full of wisdom just a single day before he went to Cairo).

We trawl the news media so you don’t have to.

Hearts, minds… but no political will? :: Kabobfest Blog
Professor Juan Cole and Cairo-Based Analyst Issandr El Amrani on Obama’s Historic Address :: Democracy Now!
Obama was up against Napoleon :: True/Slant
Palestinians, Israelis Have Mixed Reactions to Obama Speech :: Voice of America News
ANALYSIS / Obama put Arabs and Israel on an equal footing :: Haaretz
Obama speech in Cairo pleases American Muslims :: Chicago Tribune
Obama in Cairo, an opportunity to restore faith :: Al-jazeera English