January 20, 2004
Technorati is testing a beta version of its service, which is good because the current version keeps showing two and three days between this site updating. The beta site is more up to date, and in examining what it reported I found The Struggle: Liberation vs Social Power at Cobb.
Interesting. The core statement:
To my way of thinking there is no question about whether blackfolks should have a politics of liberation. They should. But there is also no question that blackfolks should also have a politics of social power.
…is something I can get with. In fact, Michael says:
…understand that a certain segment of blackfolks cannot get enough argument and discussion about politics and culture. We're caught up in the Struggle. There is also a group of uppity blackfolks formerly known as the Talented Tenth who make the state of the people their business. They take it upon themselves for any number of reasons most of which are inculcated from a tender age, to champion and defend the people. In my generation this compulsion reveals itself in classic forms which I don't have time to go into. Simply understand that P6 and I are coming from the same place and heading towards the same promised land. Primary difference is that he spends a lot of energy dissing Bush from across the river, whereas I'm whispering into the ears of the guests at his garden party barbecue. The first thing he'll tell you is that his reasoning is different. That's all good.
I don't think that's our primary difference (but that's probably because my reasoning is different ), but the rest is close enough that I can let it lay. We share a lot of perceptions and have parallel analytical methods so we have little choice but to agree on a lot of things. I think I'm the more realistic of the two of us, though…I'm willing to accept J.C. Watts, Colin Powell and Condolezza Rice as proof of the impact Black people can have on the Republican platform;never mind the l'il Georgie's annual MLKDay pronouncements.
Also, I don't spend a lot of energy dissing your president; he's an easy target.
Posted by P6 at January 20, 2004 10:15 AM
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