Baraka 's " Je suis Charlie " article was republished in January 2016 in an anthology about the November 2015 Paris attacks . The book , titled '' ANOTHER French False Flag ? Bloody Tracks from Paris to San Bernardino '' , was edited by Kevin Barrett , who called himself a Holocaust denier on 1 April 2011 and who is called a 9/11 conspiracy theorist . Yair Rosenberg of '' Tablet '' described the work as a " veritable who 's who of bigots and conspiracy theorists . " O'Connor reported Baraka 's reply to the accusations of associating with holocaust deniers : " There has never been any question in mind about the genocidal madness of the Nazi Holocaust throughout Europe during the second world war . I abhor and reject any individual or group that fails to understand the tremendous suffering of Jewish people during that dark period . " In an article titled " No ' Je Suis Charleston ' ? " Baraka contended that a collective response similar to " Je suis Charlie " was absent after the Charleston church shooting at the Emanuel AME Church , and criticized Obama for not calling suspect Dylann Roof a terrorist . As a longtime opponent of the death penalty , Baraka has also criticized the Department of Justice 's decision to seek the death penalty for Roof , saying that it " should be seen as no more than another tactical move by the state as part of the last phase of the counterinsurgency launched against the black liberation movement . ... By appealing to African Americans , the group in the country most consistently opposed to the death penalty , state propagandists saw this as a perfect opportunity to undermine opposition to capital punishment and facilitate the process of psychological incorporation . " Baraka referred to President Barack Obama as an " Uncle Tom president " because Obama condemned the 2014 riots and violence in Ferguson , Missouri that occurred after the death of Michael Brown . Defending his use of the term , Baraka later said that he was speaking to a " specialized audience " and was attempting to " shock people into a more critical look at this individual . " Baraka has also argued that Obama has shown " obsequious deference to white power , " and that Obama and Loretta Lynch are members of the " black petit-bourgeoisie who have become the living embodiments of the partial success of the state 's attempt to colonize the consciousness of Africans/black people . " Baraka was critical of the Obama administration 's decision to not attend the 2009 UN World Conference Against Racism in Geneva . In 2013 , Baraka stated that inviting Obama to the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington " should be taken as an insult by everyone who has struggled and continues to struggle for human rights , peace and social justice . " More recently , he has argued that " the Obama Administration collaborated with suppressing the 2009 report from the Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) , which identified violent white supremacist groups as a threat to national security more lethal than the threat from Islamic ' fundamentalists ' . " In an October 2016 interview with '' The Detroit News '' , Baraka described Obama as a " moral disaster " and one of " the worst things that has happened to African-American people "
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