Re: [Pen-l] Obama and the Cult of Personality

[Jerry Monaco <monacojerry@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 5:14 PM, raghu <mraghu01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Jerry Monaco <monacojerry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If one result of electing America's first African American president is that
> people of color are more likely to support U.S. imperialism and violence
> then we should count this as a bad result.

An imperialism supported by people of color is an oxymoron.
-raghu.

Give some thought to this.

Do you mean to say that people of color won't or can't support
imperialism?  It is impossible for people of color to support
imperialism?  There have been empires where people of color have been
the ruling class ever since the rise of state power.  To deny this is
to deny history.  

So will Obama, a person of color, dismantle the regional commands of
the so-called "Defense" Department?  Will he suddenly reverse himself
and not support Israel, even though he was sympathetic to the recent
U.S.-Israeli attack on the Palestinians?  Will Obama withdraw troops
from Afghanistan or from Germany or Japan or Colombia or Indonesia? 
Will Obama stop supporting the corporate exploitation of Central
America?  

By the way are Colin Powell and Conde Rice imperialists?  As far as I
can tell they always supported imperialism.  What about the people of
color among the African and Latin American elites who support U.S. imperialism?  

Yes, racism is part of modern imperialism and will continue to be no
matter what the color of the face of the executive of the imperial
power.  

Let me ask you, specifically.  What will change in the system and institutions of U.S. imperialism now that Obama is in power?  

Jerry

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