The US President-elect Barack Obama today expressed deep concern about the loss of civilian lives in Gaza and Israel. Speaking after Israeli tank shells killed at least 40 Palestinians at a UN school where civilians had taken shelter, Obama told reporters "the loss of civilian life in Gaza and Israel is a source of deep concern for me." But Obama otherwise said he would adhere to his principle that only US President George Bush would speak for American foreign policy at this time, but said he would have plenty more to say after his 20 January inauguration.
The US President-elect Barack Obama today expressed deep concern about the loss of civilian lives in Gaza and Israel.
Speaking after Israeli tank shells killed at least 40 Palestinians at a UN school where civilians had taken shelter, Obama told reporters "the loss of civilian life in Gaza and Israel is a source of deep concern for me."
But Obama otherwise said he would adhere to his principle that only US President George Bush would speak for American foreign policy at this time, but said he would have plenty more to say after his 20 January inauguration.
War is being waged on my brothers and sisters and I sit here behind enemy lines, at a keyboard, in pain. Impotent. All I will do is say that it is wrong. I won't walk into the Israeli consulate and open fire on those who respresent and protect the killers. I won't even throw a rock through the window of their tony offices. I surely have more power than I pretend to not have. I could get press when they hauled me away to jail. The peace movement, surely the only thing more impotent than myself, would denounce me. I would probably lose a job I'm going to be laid off from anyhow. But I won't do anything. I am afraid. ... Because it is so little, because people are dying while I sit here, half dressed, typing I am embarrassed. If nothing else I can say, I must say, as a citizen of the US south, as a man of African descent, that Barack Obama is a fraud. Like those before him, he's a killer. He is soon to be President of the United States which a longer than necessary synonmy for fraud and murder, for genocide, for capitalism, for callousness. Barack Obama is not Black. He's an embarrassment to humanity. Not unlike or more so than those preceding him, but along with them. Obama is not Black. He's disgusting. Obama isn't Black. He's the President. The distinction apparently needs to be made.
I am afraid. ...
Because it is so little, because people are dying while I sit here, half dressed, typing I am embarrassed. If nothing else I can say, I must say, as a citizen of the US south, as a man of African descent, that Barack Obama is a fraud. Like those before him, he's a killer. He is soon to be President of the United States which a longer than necessary synonmy for fraud and murder, for genocide, for capitalism, for callousness. Barack Obama is not Black. He's an embarrassment to humanity. Not unlike or more so than those preceding him, but along with them. Obama is not Black. He's disgusting. Obama isn't Black. He's the President. The distinction apparently needs to be made.
Oh my | 4 Dec 2008
Being Black in the US means something. It implies an understanding of power and oppression. It implies an inclination and proclivity to side with those that resist oppression and exploitation, the Black nation having a history of acute experience with those forces. That said, does it matter if we have sitting, the first Black chairman in the 221 years of the House's existence, if he sits idly by and congratulates a president-elect that promises to embrace imperial foreign policy across Africa and the so-called Middle East?
That said, does it matter if we have sitting, the first Black chairman in the 221 years of the House's existence, if he sits idly by and congratulates a president-elect that promises to embrace imperial foreign policy across Africa and the so-called Middle East?
The ghost of Garvey keens ... Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
