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

[David Morris]

Reed's argument isn't an argument.  He is saying that blacks and feel
lucky to have a minority in the Presidency (which is probably largely
true), and that non-minority should respect that by shutting up.  Fuck
him!  Remember that woman who at the CNN townhall meeting said she was
exhausted making excuses for him, his lack of leading?  She was black.

This defending a politician lack of performance because he is black,
by calling the opposition racist, or at the very least insensitive
reminds me of former New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial calling together a
group of black ministers for a prayer-meeting to ask God to stop the
violence as a way to racially deflect a much larger group
simultaneously marching on City Hall at that very moment to protest
the outrageous execution-style murder of restaurant employees in the
walk-in fridge.  Inaction and prayer with an overt dose of
racial-politics were pitted against those that demanded
accountability.

David Morris

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 3:53 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Reed's argument: he met a self-identified white progressive who called the Tea Party a people's movement, therefore ALL white progressives believe this to be the case, is a noxious contortion of logic.  We jeer at ignorant Tea Baggers who use this idiotic method of pointing to the particular as proof of the general:  I met a black person who was X, therefore ALL black people are X.  It's as ignorant a construction coming from Reed.  Oh, he thinks Clarence Thomas was mistreated by Anita Hill, does he?  How progressive of him.