Re: [A-List] Obama enabling White Supremacists

[Leighm <the.buffalo.in.the.midst@xxxxxxxxx>]

Charles Brown wrote:
> Talk about blaming the victim.  Yea, by their existence , Black people
> "enable" white supremacists. If Black people would just be quiet, not
> seek anything that rightfully belongs to white people, like the
> Presidency, hey , the white supremacists could just shut down their
> organizations.
>
>   
I'm sorry to pop your bubble, but Barack Obama IS NOT likely to be the 
'uppity N..." leading some hypothetical masses to liberation.

He's what I've always called a 'corporate hack', and 'hack' crosses 
race/gender/income lines as if they don't exist... You COULD replace 
that word with opportunist or somesuch and have part of the meaning of 
'hack'.

I found this today, and it is a summation of my visualization of the 
problem with American political figures regardless of race, color, creed 
or national origin.

From The Nation:
George Carlin: American Radical

posted by John Nichols on 06/23/2008

I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is 
drawn and cross it deliberately. -- George Carlin,

The last vote that George Carlin said he cast in a presidential race was 
for George McGovern in 1972.

[...]
"But I'll tell you what they don't want," Carlin continued. "They don't 
want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't 
want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. 
They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them. That's against 
their interests. They don't want people who are smart enough to sit 
around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they're getting fucked 
by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. You know 
what they want? Obedient workers – people who are just smart enough to 
run the machines and do the paperwork but just dumb enough to passively 
accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the 
longer hours, reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing 
pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And, now, 
they're coming for your Social Security. They want your fucking 
retirement money. They want it back, so they can give it to their 
criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They'll get it. 
They'll get it all, sooner or later, because they own this fucking 
place. It's a big club, and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the 
big club."

Carlin did not want Americans to get involved with the system.

He wanted citizens to get angry enough to remake the system.
[...]

In Full: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/331953


Barack Obama is not "...angry enough to remake the system."

He IS PART of that ShitStem, urban 'activist' creds aside.

" It's a big club, and you (and I) ain't in it.", Charles.

Just like John Kerry, with his VVAW creds (humorous hint: he was really 
there because 'the hippie chicks put out') pinned to his sleeve is part 
of the shitstem.

..and anyway, I'm not sure "...seek(ing) anything that *"rightfully 
belongs"* to white people..." is a worthwhile goal for anyone anywhere.

...or for that matter, women or the gay community seeking the same 
ill-gotten gains that can be derived from patriarchal domination.

Leigh