chlamor
01-30-2010, 12:55 PM
Michael Hureaux Perez said:
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Where the Obama thing has been interesting is exactly where jsf was pegging it earlier There's nothing new in Obamian politics, we've known them in the black community for years, whether it was Coleman Young in Detroit, or Norm Rice in Seattle, or Maynard Jackson in Atlanta, or Dave Dinkins in New York City, or Douglas Wilder in Virginia, or Hatcher in Newark, or Goode in Philadelphia, etc. The key difference is that as each of these black politicians and their black professional followers have become more successful within the so-called democratic party, and as that institution has lurched further to the right, the momentum generated by the traditions upheld by the DuBois, Robesons, the Malcolms and the Kings, have been drowned out by the opportunists and the grandstanders. Nothing new here. Obama is the first major output of the black professional political machine, a creature of the sort of avaricious nonsense that was heard from quite loudly at the Gary conference in 1972. At that point, with black America just out of the Civil Rights years, Vietnam, the Panthers, etc, the prostitutes within our ranks began to make their moves into practical politics. Tom Bradley of LA was one of the first generation of the "new black politics" Marian Berry would be another example, and we've seen tons of jackasses since. Cigar smoking Big Willies as the hip hop crowd calls them now, "fire on one end and fool on the other" as Malcolm saw them in an earlier day.
So Mr. Obama is, as Chris says here, just exactly what he always wanted to be, that is to say, president of the United States, and it doesn't matter what it costs black people or anyone else. He's the Man, as it were,though he posesses none of the character Irving Wallace created in that sappy first black president novel forty years ago. And with all due respect to Mary Jo Kijewski, he ain't no post turtle. He knows full well what he does, and it's time all of us, black America, wherever and whichever, woke up and smelled the bonfire he's building under our asses.
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Where the Obama thing has been interesting is exactly where jsf was pegging it earlier There's nothing new in Obamian politics, we've known them in the black community for years, whether it was Coleman Young in Detroit, or Norm Rice in Seattle, or Maynard Jackson in Atlanta, or Dave Dinkins in New York City, or Douglas Wilder in Virginia, or Hatcher in Newark, or Goode in Philadelphia, etc. The key difference is that as each of these black politicians and their black professional followers have become more successful within the so-called democratic party, and as that institution has lurched further to the right, the momentum generated by the traditions upheld by the DuBois, Robesons, the Malcolms and the Kings, have been drowned out by the opportunists and the grandstanders. Nothing new here. Obama is the first major output of the black professional political machine, a creature of the sort of avaricious nonsense that was heard from quite loudly at the Gary conference in 1972. At that point, with black America just out of the Civil Rights years, Vietnam, the Panthers, etc, the prostitutes within our ranks began to make their moves into practical politics. Tom Bradley of LA was one of the first generation of the "new black politics" Marian Berry would be another example, and we've seen tons of jackasses since. Cigar smoking Big Willies as the hip hop crowd calls them now, "fire on one end and fool on the other" as Malcolm saw them in an earlier day.
So Mr. Obama is, as Chris says here, just exactly what he always wanted to be, that is to say, president of the United States, and it doesn't matter what it costs black people or anyone else. He's the Man, as it were,though he posesses none of the character Irving Wallace created in that sappy first black president novel forty years ago. And with all due respect to Mary Jo Kijewski, he ain't no post turtle. He knows full well what he does, and it's time all of us, black America, wherever and whichever, woke up and smelled the bonfire he's building under our asses.