[A-List] Obama Throws Reverend Wright "Under The Bus"

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*Wright & Obama*
from Feral Scholar by Stan (Goff)

No way to stay out of this one, so Iâm linking a piece by Illinois 
resident, political scientist, and writer Adolph Reed. Wright, of 
course, is being subjected to a one-sided vilification-fest by the 
media. They hate uppity Negroes; they hate anyone who is tainted by a 
whiff of Black nationalism; and they really hate anyone who doesnât go 
along with the cherished white delusion that race is no longer an issue 
here.

Obama, as I predicted, is throwing Wright under the bus.

Iâve taken plenty of time out to beat up on Senator Clinton for her 
phony-baloney perception management campaign; and since Iâd rather eat 
shit than endorse either one of these opportunists, Iâm linking Reedâs 
piece on Obama (even thougth I have disagree with Reed a time or two in 
the past (on the role of Black nationalism, eg).

Nationalism is what Wright elicits, by the way, because he insists on 
bringing up the evidence of the colonial relation Black America is 
subjected to by white America. This is his cardinal sinâ reminding us 
that we are not a melting pot, that we are not equal, that it is not all 
in the past, and that all the prophets of working class unity canât 
conceal the fact â except by rhetoric â that the white working class in 
the US is complicit in the colonial subjection of African America, 
because as in all imperial relations the white working class gets a cut. 
The ruling class hasn;t had to divide white and Black workers since the 
18th Century. Since then, the white working class was in the vanguard of 
whtie supremacy.

Thatâs why Clintonâs veiled appeals to racism work. Thatâs also why 
Obama is trying to play an opportunistâs (and a foolâs) game: talking 
racial reconciliation and unity as if it were a fact to whites and 
hoping he can mobilize phenotype authenticity for African Americans (as 
a righteous reaction to Clintonâs race-baiting, imo).

In full: http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2008/04/29/wright-obama/