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

[alice wellintown]

It's not all over the place if you follow the thread that sez, white
people, as was the case way back when Obama's pastor had to be put out
to pasture and the woodshed for a style unbecoming of a President's
man of the cloth, can't tolerate a brother if he getz his
belligerence bundled up around his booker T's buckets.

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Thomas Beshear <tbeshear at insightbb.com> wrote:
> Reed's piece is unpersuasive -- it's scattershot, all over the place. All I
> would say about Obama's steadfast black and Latino support is that it often
> failed to materialize in the polling places last November. (Polls show the
> makeup of the electorate was much whiter and older than in 2008). I just
> hope they show up in '12.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 11:38 AM
> Subject: Re: Ishmael Reed: "What Progressives Don’t Understand About Obama"
> Keeping Cool & Caring" NYT
>
>
> to inject race into this argument is pretty absurd. somehow by feeling
> disappointed at Obama is playing into the hands of the enemy is also
> absurd.
> forget about this man up shit. his bad decisions and fall backs and
> overall aloofness these past two years is proof enough no matter.
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:27 AM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>
>>
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