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

[John Thornton]

Charles Brown wrote:
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>
> 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. 

You mean the same Jesse Jackson who said he wanted to cut Obama's nuts 
off for "talking down" to Black people and "morally lecturing" the Black 
Community and perpetuating inaccurate stereotypes about negligent black 
fathers?
So Jackson and I agree that Obama is using right-wing talking points 
about personal responsibility that are garbage. Good.
You know what I'm talking about Charles.
It's crap when Cosby does it and it's crap when Obama does it. You know 
it is.

Dorene I hate to seem condescending but I don't believe you have any 
idea what I'm getting at.
If you read transcripts of Obama's lectures and then read Melissa 
Harris-Lacewell's critiques of them you'll understand better what I'm 
getting at.
She's a professor of African-American studies at Princeton, knows her 
shit, and has more specific examples on the subject than I.
Or try Michael Eric Dyson's criticisms. He's sociology professor at 
Georgetown university and an Obama backer but is bothered by Obama's 
nonsensical rhetoric about personal responsibility as pandering to his 
white supporters because he know Blacks won't abandon him.

John Thornton