[lbo-talk] BAR: The Peculiar Class Solidarity of Barack Obama and “Skip” Gates

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"Sean Bell and Oscar Grant were shot down like dogs, but that was none
of Barack Obama's concern. But when a local cop racially profiled Dr.
Henry Louis Gates as if he were just another Black man, Obama's world
shook. 'To be subsumed within the Black mass means class death. No one
was safe!'

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CB: Factchecking BAR we find that Obama led passage of state
legislation against racial profiling in 2003, meaning Obama has done
more than all the BAR people to fight racial profiling, and show
concern for the Sean Bell's and the Oscar Grants.
In the press conference in which he responded to the question on
Gates, Obama mentioned the research which he said makes it irrefutable
that there is racial profiling.

The peculiar stupidity of BAR, trying to give class analysis a bad name.

Barack Obama's Story
by Obama for America

   http://ourstory.com/thread.html?t=254436

Passed an important ban on racial profiling · 2003

Working with a Republican senator, Barack Obama "met with law
enforcement... once a month for three years" to pass the legislation.

Posted: Jul 19, 2007