EJ Ujaama
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The Book And The Author
A Felon and A Democrat
The 160-Year War on Black Americans
By Dr. Earnest J. Ujaama
A polemic comparative analysis documenting the structural continuity of anti-Black racial hierarchy across American political history.
A Felon and A Democrat: The 160-Year War on Black Americans draws a sustained parallel between the presidencies of Andrew Johnson and Donald Trump, arguing that both administrations functioned not as aberrations but as instruments of a durable racial order that has survived every reform designed to dismantle it.
Dr. Ujaama argues that the 160-year war has moved across domestic policy, theological complicity, and global geopolitics — arguing that the Genocide Convention's framework applies to Black Americans while tracing the global color line through U.S. foreign policy, from Haiti to Palestine.
Drawing on Higginbotham, Critical Race Theory, and forensic psychology, Dr. Ujaama examines the psychological impact of presidential rhetoric, implicit bias in criminal justice, and race-based traumatic stress. Ultimately, his work is grounded in the conviction that scholarship names structural harm — and demands its end.
About The Author
Dr. Earnest J. Ujaama is a scholar whose work sits at the intersection of presidential rhetoric, race, and the law. His 2021 doctoral dissertation used Critical Discourse Analysis to examine how four U.S. presidents encoded racial subordination into their crime control rhetoric — documenting how legal precepts of Inferiority, Property, and Powerlessness have been embedded in the language of power. That research is the empirical foundation of this book.
Dr. Ujaama holds advanced degrees in criminal justice and forensic psychology. His scholarship draws on the legal historiography of A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., the Critical Race Theory tradition of Derrick Bell, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Cheryl Harris, and Richard Delgado, and forensic research on dehumanization, racial threat, and trauma.
A criminal justice scholar trained in forensic psychology is not a neutral observer — and is not meant to be. That training is a lens for identifying precisely how systems produce harm and who bears the cost. Dr. Ujaama's work is grounded in the conviction that scholarship carries an obligation beyond the university: to name structural harm, document its mechanisms, and contribute to the work of dismantling it.
This book is written in that spirit.