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

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Mon Dec 13 16:49:14 CST 2010


Laura 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.

ok, I live in Florida but it is very VERY common here to pick up the
newspaper and see people - columnists, self-identified libertarians in
particular but not limited to them, and of course letters to the
editor - in print calling the Tea Party a people's movement, and so
forth

unfortunately his data point is not isolated, is my point



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