So what do you think? Is Obama a threat to the system (a "field negro") or the obedient slave of the system (a "house negro")?
Is Obama a force for "change"?
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To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.
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Too soon to tell. I'm not optimistic. But to be fair to Obama, no "field negro" would have a chance of being elected.
Also Roosevelt was a fairly conservative figure to begin with. He campaigned on a balanced budget. It is quite possible that events
will force Obama to the left.
You can change more from within the system than from outside it and the tendency of black radicals
to call those who have tried to win over the centre Uncle Tom has been very destructive. Politics is a practical profession and to achieve anything you have to appeal beyond your base.
@Robert: "field negro" would have a chance of being elected
Right. And that really tells us all we need to know about the system and the folks who are allowed to run within the confines of that system.
I would add that McCain or Hillary are as much "house negroes" as Obama and that Ron Paul, Cynthia McKinney or Ralph Nader are, from the system's point of view, already too much of the "field negro" type.
You can change more from within the system than from outside
This is something I deeply and passionately disagree with. Being in the systems *always* ends up coopting and corrupting you. Being in the systems strengthens the system, legitimizes it and perpetuates it. I think that the best way of bringing the system down is simply by withdrawing from it, like what Solzhenitysn said the Russians should do in the Soviet Union (http://tinyurl.com/5qwc64).
Despite everything the USA is not the Soviet Union.
Malcolm X said during the 1964 election that there was no difference between the liberal fox and the conservative wolf.
But Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act through Congress and I doubt Goldwater would have done.
It matters to the Iraqis whether Obama or McCain is elected.
@robert: I, for one thing, find a great deal in common between Dubya's USA and, say, Brezhnev's USSR. As for Iraq, I don't think the Iraqis care one way or another as whoever gets elected will simply pursue the Imperial policies of Dubya until the Iraqi Resistance ejects the USA from Iraq. Again, the problem we, in the USA, and the rest of the world have is not one of personalities, but one of a *system*. To use the example of the Soviet Union, the USA is ruled by a Soviet-style nomenklatura (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomenklatura) which is really running everything and as long as this nomenklatura remains in power nothing will change.
"Capitalist Imperialism with a human face" is what Obama represents but that is as unreal as Socialism with a human face was.
The USA is *inherently* violent and imperialistic. That is just a prerequisite for the turbo-capitalist society and economy it represents. To hope that it will somehow reform itself into a civilized and sustainable society is just naive. Its like asking a person to stop breathing - he/she simply cannot do that even if he/she tried. Same here. There is no "humanizing" this, no "reforming" it or "changing" it. It can only be brought down just like the Soviet system was brought down.
My 2cts.
Quote of the day:
There are two sides of the balance sheet of US Investment banks: the left side and the right side. On the left side, there is nothing right... And on the right side, there is nothing left.
LOL! Hilarant! Et tres vrai en plus.
I imagine that if Malcolm X were alive today, he would sound more like Khallid Mohammed:
Khallid Muhammad's Speech - Kill The White Man
@peaceful person: yeah, I used to believe this kind of nonsense too. You know how I learned the truth about Malcolm X?
My wife and I had to take a car trip from Florida to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and we wanted to get some audiobooks for the ride. Among other things, I took a cassette recording of the "Autobiography of Malcolm X" thinking: My wife and I are going to have a good laugh listening to what this crazy Black terrorist had to say for himself. See, we knew precious little about Malcolm X; all we "knew" was that he was some kind of hateful extremist who hated White people for being "blue eyed white devils" and that he was somehow connected to the Blank Panthers... [sigh, rolleyes]
We began listening to the audiobook and soon we were transfixed. The *LAST* thing we would ever have expected was to come face to face with the 'giant' Malcolm X really was. We also understood what the system had to paint him as some kind of hateful extremist: unlike Martin Luther King, who was very much a "house negro" beloved by the system, Malcolm X was way too dangerous not only to be left alive, but to even be kept in anyone's memory.
I urge you to check for yourself weather what you think you know about Malcolm X (or what he would say today) has anything to do with the person Malcolm X really was.
On the other hand, I would see why actually looking into all this would be threatening to you and your certitudes...
@VS - Thanks for introducing me to Malcolm X's speeches and his ideas. He was, is and will always be a Gaint. There are very very few persons who have had an impact on me as Malcolm X.
@Shashank: if my blog introduced you to Malcolm X then it is good enough reasons in my mind for all my efforts. I have an immense, huge, admiration for him even though I do not share his religion.
More then anything else, Malcolm was a absolutely 100% honest and idealistic man.
May we all follow his example of uncompromising honesty.
VS
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