You're right, brother Shabazz, At the time Obama was elected I was recommending to vote for Cynthia McKinney. America would have got a first black AND female president - a people's president not a Wallstreet president.
On Friday, December 25, 2015 at 11:26:50 PM UTC+1, kwame zulu shabazz wrote:
-- On Friday, December 25, 2015 at 11:26:50 PM UTC+1, kwame zulu shabazz wrote:
I love Toni Morrison the writer--her political views not so much. (Morrison's declaration that Bill Clinton was the "first Black president" was also insulting).
Im African American and I am *very* critical of Obama. That said, the vast majority of my tribe love the Obamas.
I get it.
For most of our existence in America, voting while black was punishable by death. And when we could vote, we have been voting for white people for over a century. So, in my view, the enthusiastic support for a Black president is unsurprising.
Forward ever,
Brother Shabazz
On Dec 25, 2015 1:15 PM, "Einar Schlereth" <einar.s...@glocalnet.net> wrote: I can say that I loved Toni Morrison's books. But now I got to know that she is a FRIEND of Obama and Hillary! What in heaven happened to her? She seems to be as dumb as the majority of the American people. Disgusting. The most criminal people of all people in the world by now.--
On Thursday, December 24, 2015 at 7:55:45 PM UTC+1, Ikhide wrote:"Most writers claim to abhor labels but Morrison has always welcomed the term "black writer". "I'm writing for black people," she says, "in the same way that Tolstoy was not writing for me, a 14-year-old coloured girl from Lorain, Ohio. I don't have to apologise or consider myself limited because I don't [write about white people] – which is not absolutely true, there are lots of white people in my books. The point is not having the white critic sit on your shoulder and approve it" – she refers to the writer James Baldwin talking about "a little white man deep inside of all of us". Did she exorcise hers? "Well I never really had it. I just never did.""
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/25/toni- morrison-books-interview-god- help-the-child?CMP=share_btn_ tw
- Ikhide
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