> Of course Wright is not wrong in his criticism of the US, just that
> there ain't no future in Black /white disunity, and masses of whites
> are not ready to hear Wright's level of critique. How many whites have
> been persuaded of Wright's ideas , now that he has a national platform ?
> minus 5 million ? Whereas O has millions of white people listening to
> his unifying, "milder" anti-racist themes. Anytime Black people are
> voting for O 9-1, it is highly unlikely his position on racism is
> off.the mark or Uncle Tomming.
This reminds me of an anecdote (perhaps apocryphal) from just after Fidel Castro and his troops entered Havana, at some point before April 1961, when Fidel openly declared the socialist intentions of the revolution. At a meeting at the Parque Central, a group of people was listening to a mid-level leader of the M-26 making an inflamed speech in defense of the revolution:
"And the American imperialists have the gumption of accusing us of being 'communists.' They call us 'communists' when it is us who liberated Cuba and distributed the land to the peasants. They call us communists when it was us who implemented the urban reform that distributed housing to the poor. No, no. It's not us who are the communists. It is them who are the communists. It is them who kill children in Vietnam. It is them who exploit the people of Latin America."
[Applause and cheers.]
Note: I'm not saying that Obama is a Fidel Castro.