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Obama Slipping: Black America Waking Up To the Nightmare

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A consciously Black opposition to the First Black President, on issues of peace and economic justice, is taking shape.” Some of the players “on tour”: Cynthia McKinney’s “Eyewitness Libya” tour; Tavis Smiley and Cornel West’s “Poverty Tour”; and Congressional Black Caucus efforts to put distance between themselves and Obama on their “Job Fair/Town Hall” tour.

Meanwhile, Obama’s minions attempt to maintain a “Black Wall” around the president, with diminishing results. “The realization that the dream was a chimera is one thing, but to awaken to a catastrophe in which the Great Black Hope is revealed as the Great Black Betrayer, is another magnitude of pain.

The final unraveling of Obamaism – at root, a kind of delirium centered on a corporate-crafted Great Black Hope – will be nowhere near complete until the hallucinogen is substantially purged from the psyche of its core constituency, Black America. Tentative moves by outfits like the Progressive Caucus of the California Democratic Party to explore the possibility of a primary challenge to Obama are encouraging, to be sure. But Obama’s awesome power to neutralize and disfigure progressive politics in the United States owes its potency to the First Black President’s psychological hold on African Americans, historically the nation’s most Left constituency. As long as Obama’s very presence in the White House continues to mangle African American political perceptions, effectively neutering Blacks as a social force, the chances of a progressive revival are nil.

Therefore, probably the most important political developments of the late summer are taking place in Black America – some of them “on tour.” Among activists, at least, Obama’s “Black Wall” finally cracked with the Euro-American assault on Libya. It was the straw that broke the bonds between Obama and Black nationalists and leftists, who were forced to choose between icons: the heady symbolism of a Black President versus Mother Africa. Spurred by former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney’s ongoing “Eyewitness Libya” tour, a distinctive, Black-led anti-war movement is emerging, one that is radical, anti-imperial and, specifically, anti-Obama.
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10 comments // Obama Slipping: Black America Waking Up To the Nightmare

  • maasanova
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      maasanova  

    • I liken this awakening of the black community to when conservatives were finally unable to deny that Bush wasn't a true conservative and didn't represent their interests, or the interests of anyone except for special interests lobbys and corporations.

    • 10 months ago
  • Misti
  • cherry5000
  • figgdimension
  • cherry5000
  • Vic_Romano
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      Vic_Romano  
    • Misti:

      Just when I thought that I really wasn't qualified to comment on this matter, you take the thoughts right out of my head. Voted you way up!!!

      And don't feel left out, cherry5000, I voted you up as well.

    • 10 months ago
  • cherry5000
  • JohnA
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      JohnA  
    • Misti:

      Because they vote 90% Democrat no matter who the canidate is and they will again in 2012 no matter what Obama does, and he knows that. I applaud these people for speaking out, but it will make no difference in the end. Obama gets 95%+ of the black vote in 2012 no matter what he does.

    • 10 months ago
  • maasanova
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      maasanova  
    • Misti:

      "People like me?" What's that supposed to mean lol?

      You do realize that I come from African American ancestry, right?

      Oh, I guess you didn't or else you wouldn't have used a phrase like "people like me."

      And furthermore, I didn't say that "ALL BLACK people think alike," and neither does this opinion piece.

      If you would have read past the title of the post you would have seen that Glen Ford, writer, radio host and self described black leftist examines both those who oppose Obama and those who have erected a "black wall of protection around the president" to keep other blacks corralled and useless politically.

    • 10 months ago
  • maasanova
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      maasanova  
    • JohnA:

      You're right, JohnA, but it's not just black folks that I speak to though, my hispanic friends are just as committed to the Obama administration and are even bigger apologists for him that my family members because they are party loyalists.

    • 10 months ago
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