Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] SIGNIFICANCE OF OBAMA AND CLINTON

2008-02-02 Thread Ralph Dumain
The first question would be: how many blacks and women have been taken in by all the hype over a potential black or woman president. I don't have handy access to any potential survey data, and my circle of acquaintances is hardly representative. Hillary Clinton's presidency has been in the maki

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Operation DECIMATE MOSUL has begun

2008-02-02 Thread CeJ
Just what the occupation needs--more firepower and a grinding campaign! http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080202/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq >>U.S. commanders in northern Iraq have said the battle to oust al-Qaida in Iraq from its last urban stronghold will not be a swift strike as al-Maliki suggeste

[Marxism-Thaxis] SIGNIFICANCE OF OBAMA AND CLINTON

2008-02-02 Thread CeJ
It might help blacks and women to see what most white men (including multi-syllabic ethnic types) already know: most of us will never get to run for president--or any public office in the US. I'm sure Obama and Clinton, when they are elected president (to use their phrasing), will discuss the same

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] B.H.M. 2008 - first writing; part 3 - The original "G"

2008-02-02 Thread Waistline2
>> This analysis looks pretty sound to me so far. I am rather pessimistic about the presidential election, however. The outcome could spell the end of American democracy. Unlike many others, I am not terribly impressed that the Democratic Party will choose either a white woman or a black

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] B.H.M. 2008 - first writing; part 3 - The original "G"

2008-02-02 Thread Ralph Dumain
This analysis looks pretty sound to me so far. I am rather pessimistic about the presidential election, however. The outcome could spell the end of American democracy. Unlike many others, I am not terribly impressed that the Democratic Party will choose either a white woman or a black man, as

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] B.H.M. 2008 - first writing; part 3 - The original "G"

2008-02-02 Thread Waistline2
I for one do not feel that Black History Month has outlasted its purpose because it is the riveting point of American history and what has become a country of the world‘s peoples. Our country is what Marx and Engels had in their minds eye when they wrote on the banner of the proletarian revo

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Black History Month 2008 - first writing; part 2

2008-02-02 Thread Waistline2
There are those who argue that continuing to designate a month for the study and acknowledgement of the specific and peculiar history of Blacks in America - whose majority are descendants of Southern plantation slavery, undermines the understanding that Black History is American history. Is

[Marxism-Thaxis] Black History Month 2008 - first writing; part 1

2008-02-02 Thread Waistline2
“The mere imparting of information is not education.” Carter G. Woodson Black History Month 2008 comes during a Presidential election year. Every four years voting America engages national debate over matters of war and peace; the economy, the role of government, continuing inequality