[Marxism] Are Arabs/Muslims guilty of Obamaphobia after Gaza?

[Dbachmozart@xxxxxxx]

Echoing Marvin's comments, most comrades here are certainly experienced and  
tactically sensitive enough to know how to express criticism of a popular  
bourgeois politician in political conversations with co-workers and  activists. 
"The art of revolutionary politics is knowing how much to say and  when and how 
to say it", e.g - defensive formulations.
 
It is distressing however, that here on a Marxism list, where we can all  
"let our hair down" (those that still have some) there are some comrades  who 
feel contrained to criticize Obama. Why? Because his poll numbers are  so high? 
Because he's the first Black Prez? I think that very few people here  are so 
dense that they can't see the immense symbolic achievement of an African  
American serving as leader of a nation built upon slavery, lynchings, Jim Crow  
and 
permanent second class status and the hopes that a horribly oppressed people  
have for his Presidency. Yet we here understand what those swept up in Camelot 
 II don't and for the present won't - that he has accepted the price that the 
 ruling class has imposed upon him for having that great honor - he must put  
their interests first, and everyone else's last. We Marxists understand 
clearly  what those interests are and cannot be shy about "patiently 
explaining" 
them to  Obama supporters.
 
There were some on the left who felt that when a Black hack was elected  
mayor of a big city - Dinkins in NYC, Washington in Chicago, Bradley in LA - we 
 
must hold back our critique. If that's the case and we have to wait until the  
poll numbers are down, we're followers not leaders, and our critique is  
worthless.
 
I wonder how comrades who criticize Obama's critics would speak to  
Arabs/Muslims - how would they sugarcoat Obama's criminal silence in the face 
of  
Israeli mass murder in Gaza? Are Arabs/Muslims who are justifiably livid with  
his 
silent complicity guilty of sectarianism? Obamaphobia??
 
 
A Muslim's Memo to Obama - Words Cannot Camouflage Cluster Bombs
 
clip -
 
"Obama's silence - and ultimately lame endorsement - of Israel's murder of  
hundreds of civilians is an example of such a chasm. It is one that will not  
easily exit the collective memory of the Muslim world by dint of a few pretty  
pronouncements".
 
full --
 
<_http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/alam280109.html_ 
(http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/alam280109.html) >
 
 
 
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