Posted on 03/31/2008 7:31:45 PM PDT by RDTF
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When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they'd always known - the plantations - because they attempted to exercise their "democratic" right to vote. I wish I could say white women treated me and other black people a lot better than the men did, but I cannot. It seemed to me then, and it seems to me now, that white women have copied all too often the behaviour of their fathers and their brothers. In the south, especially in Mississippi, and before that, when I worked to register voters in Georgia, the broken bottles thrown at my head were gender-free.
I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.
I am a supporter of Barack Obama because I believe he is the right person to lead the United States at this time. He offers a rare opportunity for the country and the world to do better. It is a deep sadness to me that many of my feminist white women friends cannot see him, cannot hear the fresh choices toward movement he offers. That they can believe that millions of Americans choose Obama over Clinton only because he is a man, and black, feels tragic to me.
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(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Yes we no longer need Affirmative Action.
A black man can become a supermacist. A US senator.
And win the nomination in of the major US parties.
"I want a grown-up attitude to Cuba, for instance, a country and people I love. I want an end to the war immediately, and I want the soldiers to be encouraged to destroy their weapons and drive themselves out of Iraq. I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the US to cease acting as if they don't understand what is going on."
It is always about something other than politics, isn't it? Every non black against BO is just racist.
Drudge has it posted with this headline:
ALICE WALKER: OBAMA IS OUR MANDELA...
More evidence that black racism and disdain for non blacks by blacks is endemic.
It’s astounding.
Is this really better than segregation?
be honest....hell we are worse off race relations wise....blacks may have more rights...that’s all
i am old enough to remember at least in the South when blacks loved whites and i had no reason to fear any of them
These folks are mentally ill and we have a right, no an obligation ......
Ohhhhhhhh gawwwwwwd...
I used to be amused when I would read endorsements of Obama for imaginary reasons. But as they have accumulated, I'm saddened. People really ARE this stupid. Not that I didn't already think this about Walker, who gave us the anti-white, anti-male, anti-God The Color Purple.
The Guardian — a newspaper that takes position slightly to the right of Stalin.
This stuff is great. I hope this kind of piece is seen by independent voters this Fall. The more people see who Barry appeals to the more they connect the dots. You go girl. Or goddess.
Yeah, a guy who has never had to run a single thing, and hasn't even distinguished himself as a legislator, is not only qualified, but is THE right person to lead us in this dark hour. Yeah, right.
I think that southern sun baked Walker's brain.
Well, let me put it this way: I spent the last 12 years in a predominately Black church and not a single one of them felt like these morons. The Black bigots are just the loudest folks in their race right now, but they are loud because they are being defeated by events.
As many flaws as he had, I think Dr. King would throw up at being compared to Barack Obama.
Walker has a record of supporting Communist fronts and causes including the Jan. 25, 1992 “International Rally, Peace for Cuba” End the Blockade-No US Intervention-Lift the Travel Ban, freakshow put on by the CPUSA and its fronts (Venceremos Brigade, Antonio Maceo Brigade, US/Cuba Medical Project, US Hands Off Cuba Coalition and the Cuba Information Project (Leslie Cagan).
She also has sponsored Workers World Party fronts (should be ANSWER and/or IAC).
While the endorsement of Obama is a personal act, we must pay attention to what she wants from Obama in the way of foreign policy, and it is all anti-American and pro-communist or pro-Islamofascist.
You can tell someone by the company they keep. Let’s see if Obama has to distance himself from another veteran leftist. You cannot stop someone from endorsing you, but you can say that they do no represent your positions (if this becomes a major issue. (Walker is a big name in the poetry/literature field so her support might be more important than if Jane Doe wrote this column).
This is different from the race-baiter/hater Rev. Wright, but it looks like a part of the Obama-crowd mentality, and that bodes ill for our country if he actually does support these leftist policies.
Time will tell.
I'm puking the first Wednesday of November no matter who wins. The only question is, how many bags will I need? One for McCain, two for Hillary, or three for Obama.
Agree 100%.
Nelson Mandela is a communist too.
You are very generous to McCain. I have it at 2.99999 for Mccain. 3.00000 for HRC. 3.000000001 for Obama. To three signifcant figures, they are all three-baggers.
Martin Luther King was a closet communist that worked and associated with out of the closet communists.
The thought process of these people is absolutely unbelieveable.
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