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• • 15 Aug 08
  • 4:12 pm

  Obama saying, “It doesn’t matter how much money we invest in our communities … or how many government programs we launch — none of it will make any difference if we don’t seize more responsibility in our own lives.” is no different than Farrakhan's mantra "Do For Self". I don't see how "black nationalist theorist and creator of Kwanzaa" Maulana Karenga could brush off Obama's personal responsibility remarks when that sentiment is the basis of an honest argument for Black nationalism. What I see happening is an acknowledgement in the Black community of the split between the schools of thought represented …

  Posted to Getting Messy With Jesse Helps Obama

• • 14 May 08
  • 11:23 am

  Whoever the next President is he will have to inflict a lot of pain on Americans of every income class because the bush administrations are guilty of gross neglect of all its governmental responsibilities. Its time for America to pay up in order to get up to speed with the rest of the world. Its should be obvious to all now that 9/11 and the wars were/are diversions, while bush picked our pockets. Plus, while we looked the other way the world left us behind, Americans are like tourist lost in a unfamiliar world, vulnerable and broke. Bitter, confused? Yeah. But …

  Posted to Winning the White Working Class

• • 15 May 08
  • 11:47 am

  Hi whattheheck, The next President, if he's able to resolve any of the numerous ailments afflicting this country, will be demonized by the very people he's helping. In real life there is no "spoon full of sugar to help the medicine go down", and congress needs to get behind well thought out long term solutions instead of the band-aid approach, the former being the awful, bad tasting medicine that's needed. You said, "My 42-year-old son does the same job I did back then and is even worse off than average. I made the same annual pay in 1975 that he makes …

  Posted to Winning the White Working Class

• • 10 Apr 08
  • 4:00 pm

  “Africans and Europeans came here and founded this country together — Europeans by choice and Africans in chains. That’s not a very pretty reality of our founding.”, “That particular birth defect makes it hard for us to confront it, hard for us to talk about it and hard for us to realize that it has continuing relevance for who we are today.” OMG, she IS Black. These are by far the most intelligent things I've heard of Ms. Rice saying since she came onto the national scene. I'm actually proud of her for having the guts to say it, especially in …

  Posted to A Speech Even Condi Could Love

• • 01 Apr 08
  • 11:24 am

  If the FOX mouthpieces find the contents of Rev. Wrights' sermons "controversial" they'd have a stroke if they had heard some of the sermons our pastor delivered when I was growing up in the late 60's/early 70's. Like Rev. Wright my pastor survived Jim Crow, the depression, was a Vet of the segregated military during WWII, attended theology school and was ordained but he also had a day job, as a foreman at a foundry. Quite often he used his experiences on the job to relate to parables in the Bible as the basis of his sermons and to drive home …

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