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Re: Let.s Go Hillary

On Feb 8, 2008 11:33 AM, ravi <ravi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> http://tinyurl.com/26ffym
> And his statement of my own point that Obama serves as a safety valve/
> outlet and also as a stunted end not a means to our goals:
>
> > In 2007, the Obama "package" amply satisfied all three
> > "constituencies." Corporations found him a loyal ally on Capitol
> > Hill and on the speaking circuit, rewarding him handsomely for his
> > fealty; millions of whites came to believe Obama could solve the
> > "race problem" by his mere presence, at no cost to their own notions
> > of skin privilege;


In other words Obama is a House Negro because many non-blacks like
him. This is a very unfair criticism whatever may be his other flaws.
-raghu.
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