On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:48 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > So ponder for a moment what it means that the entire U.S. now is in the > position of identifying with a black man, his wife, and kids for at least > four (and probably eight) years. The brain-scrambling effect of this is > momentous, undoing (in a deep, subconscious way) hundreds of years of racist > conditioning. This is not nothing, nor is it entirely negated by the class > aspect --but perhaps allowing the class aspect to emerge more clearly. This > is all a very, very good thing. >
Very well said! And guess what the first action of the new imperialist President was: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a6KZGC90NV1Y ------------------------------------------------snip President Barack Obama ordered the U.S. prison camp for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, closed within a year and banned intelligence agencies from using the harshest interrogation techniques. The president also formed an interagency task force to recommend options for the detention and questioning of enemy combatants, and he ordered the Central Intelligence Agency to close any secret prisons that may still be operating. -raghu. -- OUT TO LUNCH - If not back at five, OUT TO DINNER! _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
