Re: Ishmael Reed: "What Progressives Don’t Understand About Obama" Keeping Cool & Caring" NYT

[kelber at mindspring.com]

How does Reed feel about "white progressives" badmouthing Michael Steele and Condoleezza Rice?

Laura


-----Original Message-----
>From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
>Sent: Dec 12, 2010 10:51 AM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Ishmael Reed: "What Progressives Don’t Understand About Obama" Keeping Cool & Caring" NYT
>
>Unlike white progressives, blacks and Latinos are not used to getting  
>it all. They know how it feels to be unemployed and unable to buy your  
>children Christmas presents. They know when not to shout.
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/opinion/12reed.html
>
>On Dec 12, 2010, at 7:41 AM, alice wellintown wrote:
>
>> The president, the coolest man in the room, who worked among the
>> unemployed in Chicago, knows too.
>