[lbo-talk] 2007: The Year of Black ‘Media Leaders’

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Wed Jan 2 13:51:20 PST 2008


Intro to new Glen Ford essay at Black Agenda Report.

full at: http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=483&Itemid=1

2007: The Year of Black ‘Media Leaders’ – Especially Obama

Wednesday, 02 January 2008

In 2007, the contradictions that have beset Black America since the collapse (or betrayal) of the Freedom Movement two generations ago, came into sharp relief. A Black presidential candidate who spends much of his time denying the significance of race in U.S. society, cozying up to Big Business, and assuring imperial interests that he will expand U.S. military capabilities, captured the often diametrically opposed imaginations of millions of Blacks and whites. African American "media leaders" reached full_throated supremacy over2008Sharpton real, grassroots leaders. The Bush regime's assault on civilization was definitively halted in Iraq, only to launch a massive military offensive in Africa. At the same time, the U.S. sub_prime crisis _ which threatens to eviscerate the largely mythical Black middle class _ also revealed that the Corporate World Order is backed by guns and "derivatives" _ but very little cash. Black America must confront these intertwined crises in 2008 and beyond, or be swallowed up and spit out in the Mega Crisis to come. [....]



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