Comrades this is no time to rejoice

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Tuesday September 30, 2008 · 1:37 PM PDT

2008/09/30 · 13:37

Funny, I have heard a great deal of boasting and elation about the collapse of the bailout proposal. I was watching Rachel Maddow's(mind you she's great, love her) show last night but it seemed almost like a party, the guests, save Robert Reich, the man who has seen the numbers, laughing, chuckling. Even Daniel Sirota's, albeit measured reaction, called this a victory for democracy. I must say I disagree and this is coming from someone who knows and adores socialism, having spent a good stretch of my life in Europe. Forgive my rambling, these are my thoughts after speaking to socialist friends in France who are utterly perplexed why progressive think they are sticking it to the man by having the bailout fail.

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Thursday May 08, 2008 · 4:45 PM PDT

2008/05/08 · 16:45

People this is indeed inflammatory. And I know we are supposed to be bringing the party together, unity unity. But I'm sorry this the funniest damned video I have ever, ever seen. It's an inside view of Hillary's bunker. I promise to send more unification oriented posts in the future. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!

http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/...

I don't to imbed video, so any suggestions would help if there are problems. But you must see this.

Time to Rethink the Role of the Church in Black (and American) Politics

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Wednesday April 30, 2008 · 11:38 AM PDT

2008/04/30 · 11:38

If the Wright affair has taught us anything, aside from how vile the MSM is and will continue to be, it is that religious figures should really put a sock in it. As a fallen Catholic and agnostic, I may not be well suited to introduce this topic.

I don't share any particular faith and am secular to the bone, but I do know, feel and understand the historical importance of the black church. It has given safe haven to a people when all other means of political and social congregation were forbidden if not downright illegal. The church if anything is a space for sociability and fellowship. I felt this in my own youth even with the Catholic church. The priest who christened me, married my parents and performed the last rites of my grandfather was a lunatic Irishman who came up with the most ornate descriptions of hell imaginable. He spoke of the lost souls of murdered unborn babies and other such nonsense, but as the congregation grew increasingly black and hispanic, he stayed on, administered wonderful to the community. And when he passed even I was at a loss, and that says a lot because next to monarchs, there is nothing I loath more than clergy, truth be told. But Church is a complicated emotional space for folks and I understand that.

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Tuesday April 29, 2008 · 12:39 PM PDT

2008/04/29 · 12:39

This country is truly out of its mind. L'affair Wright has demonstrated that all too well. First as a secularist I look in wonder as Wright is cast as fracking Rasputin to Obama. At the end of the of it all, what you do on Sunday--I don't care if you worship snakes--is your damn business. No preacher, Rabbi, Iman or holy man should have any baring on the political future of this country. Of course, this distinction is generally maintained if the candidate is of the Vanilla variety. Rightwing loon preachers run to the protection of the Church/State divide whenever they are under attack, with their lovely tax-exemptions and the "oh I was just was just talking about how "God" wants to smite gays, minorities uppity women etc., Don't worry judgement days a long time off; you've got time to reform your ways sinners.

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Monday April 14, 2008 · 1:11 PM PDT

2008/04/14 · 13:11

My apologies for the length of this diary, but I had to voice my great sorrow concerning the state of public discourse in this country--which I felt frankly could not get any more despairing given the horrors of the Bush years. But this is it for me. Over the last week we have learned that the POTUS, Cheney, Rice, Colin Powell--the heads of the State Dept., and the judiciary have openly and willingly approved of torture--sadistic, horrific, soul-numbing torture. The story is now gone from the MSM. Outside the progressive blogworld, no outrage, no acknowledgement that this event is probably among the most significant in this country's history.

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Wednesday March 19, 2008 · 11:21 AM PDT

2008/03/19 · 11:21

The Guardian UK has a pretty good article blowing up Hillary's experience claims. It would appear that she was out of town or off on tours during most of Bill Clinton's major foreign policy decisions.

Here is the link.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/...

This leads me to ask: Why is the foreign press more on top of investigating US candidates!? Matt Frei of the BBC, who is something of a CNN wannabe gave a wonderful report on Obama's speech. He is the only journalist that I've noted who actually thought it wise to attend an black church with real live black people to contextualize the so-called scandal.

Black Folks and Patriotism, Lost in Translation

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Monday March 17, 2008 · 12:16 PM PDT

2008/03/17 · 12:16

Hello people,
I'm new to Kos, so my apologies if this breaks any diary etiquette :)

Everyone's exhausted about the Wright sermons and rightly so :) But there is a good deal of history that black folks take for granted but is Greek to many, especially the MSM. I hope this post helps clarify a bit.

Look the reverend Wright affair centers around rhetoric and history. First Wright is a classic black power preacher circa late 60's early 70's. Basically the rhetoric is America has a long and entrenched Imperialist and racist history and one must shout that fact from the roof tops because the essence of American life is to deny those two central facts. It was meant to be incendiary, because black power rhetoric was meant to counter the conciliatory speech of black politicos. The courageous and venerable John Lewis, I am sure, sat through many hours of Black power lectures given by the likes of young Turks like Stokely Carmichael which I'm sure were equally as incendiary as Wright's. No one would dare question Lewis' commitment to non-violence and rightfully so. Like many of his generation Lewis would condemn the strategy and words; Obama has done the same. In words and actions he has committed himself to a politics of reconciliation. His exposure to black power rhetoric hardly contaminates him.

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