tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12747853.post4005318785738421347..comments2024-03-11T01:14:49.586-06:00Comments on MF GALAXY: TONIGHT ON THE TERRORDOME: Amiri Baraka on Barack ObamaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12747853.post-76500790205657935222008-04-16T09:07:00.000-06:002008-04-16T09:07:00.000-06:00go here to hear the speech:http://ia341024.us.arch...go here to hear the speech:<BR/><BR/><BR/>http://ia341024.us.archive.org/0/items/BuildingBridgesRadioBarakaOnObamaAndBlackLiberation/barakantl_64kb.mp3Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12747853.post-20735594755219805652008-03-19T13:44:00.000-06:002008-03-19T13:44:00.000-06:00I'm trawling through sites in the USA to see what ...I'm trawling through sites in the USA to see what radicals in the States think of Obama. I'm deeply uneasy (as an Irishman and European) with what I see as the battle of the two crimes that dare not speak their name - Race and Feminism. Obama is trying hard not to be black and Clinton is doing her best not to be a woman, and as Baraka says (rightly in my view) neither will do much for anybody. This site has been really interesting. I'll return. Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12747853.post-70158627303371346302008-03-15T20:07:00.000-06:002008-03-15T20:07:00.000-06:00Your interview with Amiri Baraka sounds fantastic ...Your interview with Amiri Baraka sounds fantastic - I sure hope it will at some stage be available for download or on podcast for us in the south! From what you've outlined I'm very much interested in what he might have to say.<BR/><BR/>I remind myself constantly that my roots are communal not individual, and as in any community we each have a role to play. No community survives that has only hunters, or planters, or whatever, each one of us can play the role that is offered us. Now I'm inferring alot from your comments, but in my own simplistic terms while I uphold Audre Lorde's contention that the master's tools would never dismantle the master's house, it can be damn useful to have someone passing food out the window while you're jack-hammering the foundations!! As a striving academic I know I can sometimes get so caught up in the rage I feel about the many social injustices that pervade the communities and nation in which I live that I forget that for those for whom putting food on the table is an everyday challenge, who sits in the whitehouse and the ideology they espouse does have import.<BR/><BR/>Of course its a conflicted issue I have - for the sake of my young son with whom I battle daily to have him reject the perjorative messages he receives continuously regarding the 'unworthiness' of his race/skin-colour - symbolism is not meaningless to me. At the same time the potential for the most powerful and rapaciously imperial nation in the world to have a black face, even a woman's face, at its head is disturbing. And as you have already pointed out, a black figure-head might lead some to claim the death of racism and race disadvantage. They are also my concerns. However more recent media furore would make such a claim ring hollow indeed. It seems that the 'incidentally black' candidate may be too black for many after all. How utterly unsurprising! - ErikaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com