Obama's 'Race To The Top' Drives Nationwide Wave of School Closings, Teacher Firings

[msanthrope]

72. Ganging up on whom, madfloridian? The Black Agenda Report is certainly deserving of scorn, and

anyone who thinks they are a source of anything other than farthest-left lunacy has been eating too much firebagger catfood.

Barack Obama is the antithesis of Black Power, a man who promises with every word he speaks, with every nuance of phrase and body language, and through his voting record as a U.S. Senator, that he personifies the definitive end of Black organized struggle in the United States - a unilateral surrender to white racism. This is his appeal to the white masses: that they will no longer be challenged to confront history, or to relinquish privilege in the present.

Obama's siren song to African Americans is of an entirely different nature. He does not have to sing it; we provide the music, ourselves. The lyrics and melody are actually alien to Obama, but he has heard them off and on in his strange sojourn through life, and senses their power to sway us. He understands that most of us will demand nothing from him - not even elemental allegiance. His "Black" flank, he knows, is covered, while his white "progressive" flank is neutralized and confused by Black failure to recoil at his betrayals of the most basic elements of social democracy. The field is wide open to the greatest opportunist to emerge from melanin-rich ranks in the New Millennium.

Obama has already cashed in on his "Race, but not really, Card" - to the tune of $25 million dollars in contributions in the first three months of this year, three-quarters of it from corporations. This does not happen by accident. Since setting foot in the U.S. Senate, Obama has directed his entire message machine to the task of convincing corporate America that he is a friend who can be counted on to leave the actual Power Game in their hands. One of his first votes was to transfer most class action suits to federal courts, where multi-billion-dollar companies found guilty of race, gender or general employee abuse are fined the equivalent of the millionaire CEO's latest weekend at the casinos in Monaco. In the process of taking class action suits out of state courts, where the penalties to offending corporations have historically been much harsher, Obama voted against an amendment to put a cap of 30 percent on credit card debt charges. A fraction of that multi-billion dollar gift to the most unproductive sector of the economy wound up in his campaign coffers.

http://blackagendareport.com/content/why-barack-obama-needs-whuppin%E2%80%99-honest-abe-he-ain%E2%80%99t

This is what the OP's source wrote about the Democratic President of the United States. This isn't critique, nor 'holding his feet to the fire.' No--this is sheer, off-the-wall nutbag lunacy that ought not to be given the time of day on this site.

Are you defending this outrageous source?

Are you honestly suggesting that a single DUer ought to consider a single thing written on that website seriously?

No--this is only deserving of the same type of scorn usually reserved for WSWS--does that ring a bell for you?