Opanyin AB,
From my considered opinion, I don't think Kwame's explanation is a "factual lesson"? It is just his opinion and ideology, not that both are devoid of lessons! What is a factual lesson - that which can be substantiated with a story and which also fits into opposing frameworks? My point is any Black Democrat can make the same claim that "her membership in the DEMOCRATIC Party was simply choosing to belong to a lesser of two evils in partisan party affiliation, whereby she had more choices (or options) as a talented black woman." The Democratic Party has more Black women than the Republican Party so what is the logic of choices and options, or is that Black women in the Democratic Party hate options and choices the pave the way for vertical mobility. I have not read Brazile's book and for this reason can't say whether she is a sell out or not. And I think as scholars, we should be careful in stigmatizing dissent or opposing perspectives!
Kwabena
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: OBAMA-NATION-REVISITED: Donna Brazile Sells Out, A Sad Way To End A Career
Kwame (Modern-Day Osagyefo):
Thank you very much for the great factual lesson in Black History, which you shared in your very useful post below.
In fact, when I served as Director of Research and Associate Editor for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project of Stanford University (which is now a major Research Center on the Palo Alto campus), I had the opportunity to listen to former Stanford Provost Condoleeza (Condi) Rice at a couple of campus forums, including one planned for young but distinguished scholars, just like herself at the time; they mostly spoke about how they made certain choices: she unambiguously but diplomatically made it plain that her membership in the Republican Party was simply choosing to belong to a lesser of two evils in partisan party affiliation, whereby she had more choices (or options) as a talented black woman! Would the Democrats have made her a Secretary of State, or tooted her as a possible U.S. VP candidate? As VC Aluko would say in a matter of fact way: There you have it!
Of course, thanks to MLK and the legendary Dr. DuBois for their candor. Obviously, they also had closer affinity with/to the Democratic Party for reasons that could be similar to those of former Secretary of State Condi Rice. After all, was it not a Democratic Party President, who introduced the punitive "two strikes, and you are out" rule? Imagine the many young U.S. Blacks, who ended in prisons, with long sentences for drug possession, sentences that President Barack Obama later tried to reduce in a variety of ways!
Did Donna Brazille sell out? As a historian, I say emphatic "No"; she did what every past leader of the party has done with published memoirs, but she was a lot more candid, maybe in order to attract more of what Charles Dickens referred to as "Almighty" Dollar for her published memoirs. Again, there you have it!
A.B. Assensoh.
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: OBAMA-NATION-REVISITED: Donna Brazile Sells Out, A Sad Way To End A Career
"The two parties have combined against us to nullify our power by a 'gentleman's agreement' of non-recognition, no matter how we vote ... May God write us down as asses if ever again we are found putting our trust in either the Republican or the Democratic Parties." -- W.E.B. DuBois (1922)
Wow clever categorization of democrats! Donna Brazile is complicit and H & B Clinton "are sophisticated racist/white supremacists and enemies of Black!"
Professor Kwabena Akurang-Parry, PhD
Director Kwabena Nketia Centre for Africana Studies
African University College of Communications
Adabraka-Accra, Ghana
From: usaafricadialogue@Sent: November 11, 2017 2:40 PMgooglegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com > on behalf of kwame zulu shabazz <kwameshabazz@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: OBAMA-NATION-REVISITED: Donna Brazile Sells Out, A Sad Way To End A Career--Brother Kwabena,
No. But Brazile is certainly complicit--a matador for white power. Hillary and Bill Clinton are sophisticated racists/white supremacists and enemies of Black people.
kzs
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On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 7:05 AM, Kwabena Akurang-Parry <kaparry@hotmail.com> wrote:
Do you mean that Donna Brazile is a sophisticated racist and a white supremacist?
Professor Kwabena Akurang-Parry, PhD
Director Kwabena Nketia Centre for Africana Studies
African University College of Communications
Adabraka-Accra, Ghana
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: OBAMA-NATION-REVISITED: Donna Brazile Sells Out, A Sad Way To End A CareerYou received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "USA Africa Dialogue Series" group.Yes, Democrats prefer the polite, sophisticated variant of racism/white supremacy. Meanwhile, African Americans still catching hell.--
All Black Lives Matter,
kzs
On Saturday, November 4, 2017 at 6:36:11 AM UTC-5, Bolaji Aluko wrote:My People:
Donna Brazile's book-writing move is shocking. Clearly, she indeed wants to earn a few shekels, not minding that she would be throwing Obama, Clinton, and the Democratic Party under the bus.
It is her career she has thrown under the bus, I think.
And there you have it.
Bolaji Aluko
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Donna Brazile Sells Out, A Sad Way To End A Career
Her new book will only hurt the party she claims to love.
11/03/2017Only a few weeks ago I signed a petition to keep Donna Brazile on the Democratic National Committee (DNC). I defended her as a good Democrat who worked hard over the years to elect Democrats. What a difference a few weeks make.
Today I am sorry for signing that petition. She has not only bought into the Bernie Sanders campaign story for profit, selling her book, but has hurt the Democratic Party she claimed to love when she spent years as vice-chair of it.
Brazile is too smart not to know releasing her book now wasn't going to be used by Republicans to block out everything wrong they are doing from tax cuts for the rich to covering up the disgusting behavior of Trump and his campaign. She knew she was going to set Democrat against Democrat once again and for that many will never forgive her.
What is amazing to me is in trying to trash Hillary Clinton for saving the Democratic National Committee she actually throws President Obama under the bus. He was president and controlled the party operations after 2012. He left it millions in debt and owing money to banks. He left Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) in charge knowing she was a disaster, just look at the mid-term elections. He could have changed the leadership of the Party at any time but didn't want to bother. As early as 2008 he started Obama for America as the way to go around the Party. Now all that is known but did Brazile have to throw him under the bus for it now when he is finally working in tandem with Eric Holderhis former Attorney General to raise money to rebuild state parties and win legislative seats for Democrats fighting gerrymandering.
Let's start with facts. The DNC, which Brazile claims rigged the primary for Clinton, was the organization saying to states it was OK for Sanders to run in their primaries even though he was not a Democrat. Sanders himself said were he not allowed into the Democratic Primary he couldn't have run. "He was deemed "extremely disgraceful" by Donna Brazile, vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, when he said "In terms of media coverage, you had to run within the Democratic Party," he observed, adding that he couldn't raise money outside the major two-party process. The DNC shared its voter lists with him and he knew that was the only way to get them he could afford. In the middle of the primary he fired some staff for stealing Hillary's voter information from the DNC. Both campaigns signed agreements with the DNC to raise money. They both had the right to set conditions in those agreements with how the money they raised would be spent especially considering how the DNC was broke and had a record of squandering its money under Wasserman Schultz. Sanders really didn't care about that as clearly he never had any intention of raising a nickel for the party. One fact that people need to remember is Clinton won the primary by nearly 4 million votes. There was no way to rig that. Sanders's goal was always to tear down the party and that is obviously still his goal if you listen to the leadership of Our Revolution, the group he started after the campaign.
So what does Brazile accomplish by having Politico release a snippet from her book? Maybe she hopes Sanders supporters will run out to buy it? Maybe she hopes Republicans who hate Hillary and Obama will buy it? Maybe she hopes to get hired now that she has trashed the DNC, Obama and Clinton. Whatever it is she has effectively ended her career as a Democrat.
Over the years I have crossed paths with Donna Brazile many times at Democratic events. We were never friends but acquaintances and she would occasionally comment on columns I wrote or comments I made in the press. I don't expect to hear from her after this column.
What she has done as we move toward the 2018 elections for Congress, governors and state legislatures is try to reignite the fire between the Clinton and Sanders wings of the Democrat Party and re-litigate the 2016 election hurting the Democratic Party which is just beginning to recover. I see that as a career-ending move, even if she makes a few shekels from her book.
Democrats have a real chance to move forward beginning with wins next Tuesday in New Jersey and Virginia. We have a slew of great candidates who announced they are running for Congress next year and great candidates running in the 36 state governor's races, as well as for state legislature. While the DNC is still struggling to raise money, individual Democratic candidates are doing well, as are the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC). The DNC has hired Jess O'Connell as CEO and she comes with a strong record of accomplishment from EMILY's List. So despite Brazile's nasty and from the excerpts I have seen half-truths, Democrats will prevail. The Democratic Party and our candidates will stand up to Trump, McConnell, Ryan and Steve Bannon and the hate they spew. Grassroots Democrats will be working hard to ensure decency, equality and telling the truth will once again prevail in the government of the United States.
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