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On Dec 30, 2011, at 8:08 AM, [email protected] wrote: > If "Obama is not racist" yet, as is the fact, he has said repeatedly that > he self-identifies as a "Black" man - a labeling said above "that is > racist" - is he racist? The Buzzard of Awes hides behind a curtain of platitudes. That, and his Wall Street finders/handlers (whilst overtly celebrating the nickels and dimes coming in from suckers via the Internet) is why I never considered voting for him, although this country could certainly fare well by electing a black person President (Cynthia McKinley is my choice.) When Obama was inaugurated, Ralph Nader commented on Fox News that Obama had a decision to make: He would have to choose between being Uncle Sam for the people or Uncle Tom for the corporations. (The Fox News guy, with a sudden eruption of political correctness foamed at the mouth screaming "What did you call him?" and cut off any further explanation by Nader.) Although the phrase "Uncle Tom" presently is a pejorative referring to a black person who does the dirty work of the white master, that is not who Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom was. In the 19th century best seller Uncle Tom's Cabin Tom was the good guy protagonist who was beaten to death by two slaves -- Sambo and Quimby -- for refusing to beat others on behalf of the Mas'r. Over the years Tom morphed from the good guy to the bad guy by American loss of memory and racist bent. (The same sort of metamorphosis occurred with the Southern Pacific Railroad v. Santa Clara County Supreme Court decision, on which SP was granted the right to put up a fence along a stretch of railway. One Justice wrote a comment in which he said it was a good thing the case was simple, otherwise the court would have had to address the issue of whether a corporation was a person or not. That comment became de facto law over time, without benefit of conscious public discussion or vote. The late Utah! Phillips used to say that the most radical idea in America is the long memory. The present Occupation movement is fueled to some extent by the remembrance of lost intentions.) Obama is not an Uncle Tom. He chooses to do the bidding of the Wall Street war makers. His platitudinarian preaching of Hope was designed to stall off the stirrings of people of color long enough to further tighten the corporate vise. As the real Uncle Tom lay dying he was still able to forgive Sambo and Quimby and "bring them to Jesus". I fear Predator Drone Obama is beyond redemption. Dan Scanlan _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
