--- Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> >If committed, life long activists like Charles
> Barron can be
> >paralyzed, put into a
> >kind of comatose stupor just by the presence of
> this corporate funded
> >black candidate then we are in real trouble. And
> if the black polity
> >becomes fractured or just paralyzed then there
> really is no hope for
> >anything resembling a progressive movement in the
> United States.
[Ws:] Fractured and paralyzed or finally moving away from the stale 1970s-style identity politics that are completely counterproductive? Methinks that Obama may actually infuse a new spirit and new hope into the black polity.
Wojtek
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