tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21083673.post117033268885749166..comments2023-10-28T03:07:12.758-07:00Comments on Mirror On America: Senator Joe Biden and His Freudian SlipBrian http://www.blogger.com/profile/07872444863142531165noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21083673.post-1170415603228112142007-02-02T03:26:00.000-08:002007-02-02T03:26:00.000-08:00Thanks for the comments...I'm definitely not an Ob...Thanks for the comments...<BR/><BR/>I'm definitely not an Obama sympathizer. I have been a critic of Obama (read through my archives). I am leery of his cozy relationship with the elites in Washington D.C....especially for a man who seemed to have risen from the grassroots of Chicago.<BR/><BR/>And you're right. These two probably do have lunch together. They sit on at least one Committee together in the Senate and seem to have become friends (at least to some extent). So that would not be a stretch at all.<BR/><BR/>But on this issue, I felt the need to point out the problem with Bidens comment. This issue is bigger than Biden and Obama. It pointed the spotlight on a larger issue concerning how Black folks are still perceived in this country (and around the world for that matter).Brian https://www.blogger.com/profile/07872444863142531165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21083673.post-1170343677746694602007-02-01T07:27:00.000-08:002007-02-01T07:27:00.000-08:00The instinct to circle the wagons around Barack Ob...The instinct to circle the wagons around Barack Obama, and any other black public figure is understandable, goes back a long way, and has served our people well over the years. But our political enemies have learned how to use it against us. At different points the careers of such figures as Clarence Thomas, Condoleeezza Rice, Harold Ford, to name a few -- and now Barack Obama, the right --- and Dems can often be "the right" too --- have counted on the fact that their stooges were in blackface to shield their public policy stands on issues from the scrutiny of blacks who want to stand up for ourselves, and of some whites as well.<BR/><BR/>Clarence Thomas, you may remember called raising of sexual harassment questions at his confirmation hearings a "high tech lynching". Rice trots out the fact that she was a little black girl in Birmingham at the same time when other little black girls were murdered by the KKK in that same city, and so on. In my own opinion we would be better served if we spent more time looking at Obama's, Ford's and all these mew jack faces in black --- if we spent more time looking at their actual public policy stands instead of rushing to their defense at every slight, no matter how small. <BR/><BR/>Biden and Obama are both senators with Ivy League law degrees. I'm sure they have lunch together, work out together in the Senate gym, and socialize together on a regular basis. <BR/><BR/>Our latest issue contains two articles on the junior senator from Illinois, one by me, and one by Paul Street. I talk about the devolution of Obama's stands on health care over the last several years. Street actually read Obama's latest book, and offers some trenchant commentary thereon. You know where to find us. We're at www.blackagendareport.com.<BR/><BR/>You're invited to check it out, and offer a comment or six.<BR/><BR/>And thanks for the props you gave my colleague Glen Ford's Lincoln article.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com