Shades of 1983

By Salim Muwakkil

As I surveyed the throng gathered March 16 in Chicago’s Hyatt Hotel to celebrate the primary victory of Illinois State Senator Barack Obama I experienced a sense of déjà vu. In 1983, I had stood among a similar crowd when Harold Washington won Chicago’s [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    Heard him on Air America Radio, and he sounds like someone important to vote for!

    United States Posted by Kyle Stoner on Apr 6, 2004 at 5:32 AM

    Obama has to watch for two amBushes in this election:

    1. Will the voting machines be programmed by Republican Rangers? 

    2. Will the Karl Rovers modify his name and his face to Osama? 

    Bushites don’t play by any rules but their own—like Hitler and Stalin.

    United States Posted by Jim Wood on Apr 7, 2004 at 9:08 PM

    Obama has the opportunity to put to rest the Green left’s only partially correct claim that there is no difference between the Dems and the Reps.

    United States Posted by Joel on Apr 11, 2004 at 7:40 AM

    Sounds like Carol Mosley Bran all over again too me. What is one lone black man going to do that a million man march couldn’t do. We were ignored then and now,  one comes to make us belive that he will have the power of millions.pleeeese. Obama just like Carol was rasied on milk from the tit of Americkkk ‘s curupt system. Tell me tell me! what is diffrent about him. So what if some progressive white like him. They can’t even protest againist the war in chicago. Oh yea where was Obama then.

    United States Posted by Decal on Apr 19, 2004 at 4:45 PM

    I went back home to Chicago to work election day for Barack Obama.

    Actually when there were protests against the war in Chicago Barack Obama was there.  You can find one of the speeches he made at one of them on his site, or you can search the archives at www.blackcommentator.com, where we reprinted it.  We were the ones, by the way, who asked whether he was drifting rightward toward the DLC, which DID claim him, falsely as it turned out.

    And the Million Man March?  Pul-leaze.  If the folks that did that were the least bit serious about organizing anything, they would have at least taken names and addresses and phone numbers.  Can you imagine what a powerful tool a Million Man Mailing List would have been?  But no, they were concerned with other stuff.  Remember how Farrakhan used the prestige he got from the MMM?  He turned up a couple weeks later clasping aloft the bloodstained hand of Nigeria’s Sani Abacha claiming the world was after this good man cause he was a good Muslim. 

    At least Carol MB has admitted a mistake on that one.  Has da Minister?

    United States Posted by Bruce A. Dixon on Apr 27, 2004 at 11:09 AM
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