dewds, obama threw wright under the bus when he implied he was the family’s crazy uncle, but now youre *shocked* *shocked*?
By shag carpet bomb • May 4th, 2008 • Category: Election 2008, Obama, RacializationGlen Ford at BAR, Obama’s ‘Race Neutral’ Strategy Unravels of its Own Contradictions. Excellent analysis, as usual. The title refers to someone’s reaction at the lbo listserv. it just cracked me up that a radical — a marxist radical and not some wimp ass version of such called “progressive” or some shit — actually thinks that teflobama is, you know, toning down his leftist perspective in order to get elected. had me rolling on the floor, that one.
Clearly, this is what panic looks and sounds like when Obama’s flimsy tissues of “race neutrality” are stripped away. He berates Rev. Wright and other Black voices for self-centeredness in failing to strike a balance between African American grievances and whatever ails white people. “When you start focusing so much on the historically oppressed,” said Obama, “we lose sight of the plight of others.” Obama is desperate to convince these “others” that he rejects anything that smacks of an Afro-centric worldview, as represented by Rev. Wright. “What became clear to me was that he was presenting a world view that contradicts what I am and what I stand for.”
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