A black bourgeoisie perspective on U.S. politics
JUNE 2009 – PART I
Air Force One carrying U.S. President Barack Obama arrives at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh June 3, 2009. ——REUTERS/Fahad Shadeed
President Barack Obama arrives in Riyadh, Saudia Arabia, Wednesday, June 3, 2009.
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U.S. President Barack Obama (L) is welcomed to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by King Abdullah (R) at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh June 3, 2009.
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U.S. President Barack Obama (L) is welcomed to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by King Abdullah (2nd R) at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, June 3, 2009. Both men are drinking a traditional coffee.
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U.S. President Barack Obama (L) holds a gift he received from Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah during a meeting at the king’s farm outside Riyadh June 3, 2009.
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President Barack Obama displays a gift he received from Saudi King Abdullah at the start of their bilateral meeting at the King’s Farm in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, June 3, 2009.
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US President Barack Obama (R-C) tours the Great Pyramids of Giza following his landmark speech to the Muslim world on June 4, 2009. Egyptian antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass guided Obama around the world-famous pyramids following “unprecedented preparations and security arrangements,” state news agency MENA quoted Hawass as saying.
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US President Barack Obama (L) smiles during a bilateral meeting with his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak at the presidential palace in Cairo on June 4, 2009. Obama arrived in Egypt to make a momentous multimedia address to the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims, seeking to heal a wide breach between America and Islam.
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U.S. President Barack Obama is given a tour of the Great Pyramids of Giza by the Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Dr. Zahi Hawass (NOT IN PICTURE) while in Cairo, Egypt June 4, 2009.
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US President Barack Obama arrives to deliver his highly-anticipated address to the Muslim world on June 4, 2009 in the Grand Hall of Cairo University in Cairo. Obama said that he wants “a new beginning” with the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims, and called for an end to a cycle of “suspicion and discord.”
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US President Barack Obama (R) and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (2R) listen to an explanation by an Egyptian-American art historian (L) as they tour the Sultan Hassan Mosque in Cairo, June 4, 2009. Obama took a tour of the medieval mosque in the heart of old Cairo on a trip aimed at repairing rifts with the Muslim world.
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Cheryl Contee aka "Jill Tubman", Baratunde Thurston aka "Jack Turner", rikyrah, Leutisha Stills aka "The Christian Progressive Liberal", B-Serious, Casey Gane-McCalla, Jonathan Pitts-Wiley aka "Marcus Toussaint," Fredric Mitchell
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