>On May 8, 2008, at 1:57 PM, Michael Pollak wrote:
>
> > So essentially there's no reason for Obama to give this up. It's
> > popular with the vast majority of blacks; it's popular with non-
> > liberal
> > whites *for completely different reasons* from a completely different
> > perspective (what Ta-Nehisis Coates calls the "double play"); and,
> > most
> > importantly, it's meant to -- and there's no reason to think it
> > can't --
> > advance his ability to pass strutural programs to help the ghetto
>
>You're dreaming, Michael. It's not going to happen. The "double play"
>is aimed at courting upper-status blacks and wavering whites at the
>expense of "Cousin Pookie." The ghetto can go to hell. If he becomes
>president, let's reconvene in 2 years for an "I told you so moment."
>
>What is it about this guy that makes people lose their critical
>faculties?
sorry to overpost, but why not. lets make sure upper status blacks get what they want -- which is recognition of _their_ grievances while they, like their upper status white brethren and sistren, stick it to the poor and working class -- ghetto of any color or ethnicity. i mean, when you stop and think about it, that's what marx wants us to do in that letter to arnold ruge where he tells us to advance the most radical and progressive "struggles and wishes of the age". the goal is to explode the contradication eventually anyway, eh?
maybe once the poor see that it's a class thing, not a race thing, they'll finally get fed up.
long shot. i know. :)
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