[lbo-talk] The latest outrage from Rev. Wright

[Charles Brown]

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.

Nothing wrong with O running for Mayo Chicago, so talking  about that
as some kind of ulterior motive is off.


I think Reed and Wright are  ultra -leftists and suffering from some
kind of envy ("Haterism") of O.

Being a  "bilingual"/Standard English/Black English speaker, myself,
and having read some of O's bio, I doubt he needed to learn how to speak
Black English by the time he got to Chicago.  The whole discussion
proceeds as if O is a fake "liberal" or progressive. Like he's really
just an egomaniac or something.   Naw He's just as genuinely progressive
as anybody here, but he figured out something new that works in reaching
the millions -   a new liberal in the good  or left sense of liberal.
 
On Meet the Press , O managed to remain to the left of Clinton still.
Despite his need to separate from  Wright , O refused to pander to saber
rattlers on Iran,  emphasized need for diplomacy and economic aid to
"Middle Eastern ", wouldn't agree to a "nuclear umbrella" there.
Clinton and McCain seem to be on the same team quite a bit.  Is that
what they mean by "triangulation"  ?


I'm like Carrol now, as I had emergency eye surgery on May Day, so I
can't write much on this, but from what I've been able to read , the
analysis of O and Blackness here needs a lot of help again Guess I'll
have to leave it up to Dwayne to handle .

 O gets" it" better than Reed, Wright, or his critics here.

Purblind Charlie




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