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Posted May 7th, 2008 by Prometheus 6

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A Barack Obama presidency would certainly be a first - the first time that "most black people will end their historic progressive politics and applaud this country's criminal activity just because the head criminal looks like them." Despite the fact that African Americans overwhelmingly agree with the thrust of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's critique of American society, history and government policies, they will undoubtedly vote in huge majorities for the Illinois senator who has repudiated Wright. "Obama's campaign has been filled with a laundry list of lies" and promises to continue on that track. But, as with Colin Powell's lying, international lawbreaking term in high office, "most black people [will make] excuses for him and for his crimes." Although verbally less bellicose than Hillary Clinton, Obama is no less the warmonger in substance.

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By now most people understand the correctness of a prediction I made the last time we had this public discussion about Barack Obama’s candidacy, that it would excite and arouse Black people politically in a way that they haven’t been since at least the 1988 Jesse Jackson campaign. I said at that time, as well, that it would be the Left and progressive’s task to see that that general wave of excitement could be used to reenergize the Black Liberation Movement itself. This task remains and in the present situation of Obama/s strong standing both in popular vote and delegates, it is most imperative that we find ways to utilize this energy and emotion in a more permanent form. A form that will allow the Afro American people to choose and fight their enemies and choose and support their friends.

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