On Friday, July 17, 2009 at 20:50:19 (+0530) raghu writes: >On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Bill Lear<[email protected]> wrote: >> Did anyone notice the contrast on the NYT front page today (web >> version)? >> >> Obama gave the predictable "personal responsibility" lecture to the >> N.A.A.C.P, telling blacks there was "no excuse" for failing to succeed >> in the land of the American Dream. > >What would you rather have him say? That you are guaranteed to fail at >everything, because the Man is out to get you?
Good lord, what an idiotic question. Plainly, I'd RATHER him speak the truth --- e.g., that the barriers facing blacks are amazingly high in our still very, very racist business-run society; that those committing the most serious crimes in our nation today are not young black gangsters, but corporate criminals who are not held equally accountable for their behavior and who receive no puerile lectures on "individual responsibility" but rather handouts in the hundreds of billions of dollars from the public till. But of course, this is thinking in terms of a fairy tale, as for him to do that would mean he weren't the smooth-talking corporate shill that he is. Try using your imagination, it helps sometimes. Bill _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
