BARACK NOT ENOUGH OF AN UNHINGED RADICAL FOR SOME
At least that's the vibe that I got from a piece over at Black Agenda Report. I don't take seriously much that comes from this camp, but I do read there from time to time for comic relief. What else could you get from a place where many of the readers consider Cynthia McKinney valid presidential material? The black progressives eating their own again.
The fragility of Barack Obama's DLC-inspired electoral strategy is now exposed for all to see. Obama has chosen to “reach out” to white and Republican voters while challenging none of their assumptions about America, racism or empire, at the same time, counting on on a deaf and blind black nationalism to shield him from accountability to African Americans. Republicans (and Hillary Clinton) know all they need do to counter him is prove to whites that he is not as conservative as he seems. Obama will thus be forced scramble relentlessly rightward from here on, disowning, denouncing and dishonoring any and all stirrings of black or grassroots militancy to keep white support without telling white America anything it doesn't want to know.
Go on over and have a laugh.
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