by Glen Ford
It’s not enough that President Obama has Wall Street in his back pocket – or, is it the reverse? – but he also has loyal operatives among what passes for the Left. Daily Kos, In These Times and Democracy Now! misrepresented, and miscounted, last week’s Occupy Harlem-led protest at the Apollo Theater. In These Times writer Allison Kilkenny took a step backward in time, treating white Occupy Wall Street demonstrators like “outside agitators” for protesting Obama in Harlem. “Kilkenny doesn’t think Black progressives have the right to ask white and Latino progressives to attend Black-led demonstrations in Black neighborhoods.”
Lots of stuff in play, but I can not believe that segregation is the future.
ReplyDeleteSadly it seems to be in America's DNA. Race is the most potent tool for obscuring political realities. Interesting how it's kind of working in reverse in the Obama case, liberals supporting segregated protests. Guess that's what happens when you have essentially an anti-black president, in terms of his policies, who "happens to be black".
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