[lbo-talk] Adolph Reed on the politics of the crisis

[Charles Brown]

I forgot the other point on this. The demand for _men_ to do more
childcare is a feminist demand ( remember ?) Thus, Obama's  ( and
Jackson's) calls on Black men to do more childcare is further rendered
left-wing by its being feminist.

Charles
^^^^

Obama has repeated the right wing talking points on "personal
responsibility", which are absolute garbage, on many occasions. This is
an attack on all poor people and Reed is accurate on this point. 

John Thornton 

^^^^ CB: Garbage. 

Jesse Jackson, a leftwinger , used to do a whole rap much longer than
Obama's, on Black, men's "personal responsibility" as fathers. " A boy
can make a baby. It takes a man to raise one", etc., etc. Nobody called
them rightwing talking points then, 'cause they weren't. 

Obama is a _Black man_. His discussion of these responsibilities is
left-wing criticism-self-criticism. 

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