[Sosfbay-discuss] [GPCA-MediaComm] My Op-Ed Posted on The Black Commentator

[civillib at comcast.net]

Alex,

Good stuff. Would you mind if I took info from here and wound it into a release? We could even pump 
up where the op-ed is running.

Thanks,

Cres

alexcathy at aol.com wrote:
> Dear Green Friends,
> 
> The Black Commentator posted my op-ed on Clinton-Obama "Race Talk" 
> today.  This is a variation of one that was posted on the Los Angeles 
> Times web site recently, except that this one is more hard-hitting about 
> the double-talking antics of Los Angeles' race-obsessed intelligentsia. 
> 
> Please note that they *DID* print my pitch for the Green Party in the 
> last paragraph.
> 
> Alex Walker
> Los Angeles Greens 
> 
> =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =
> * *
> *Posted on The Black Commentator, May 22, 2008*
> *Dissent: No More Race Talk* 
> <http://www.blackcommentator.com/278/278_dissent_no_more_race_talk_walker_guest.html>* 
> *
> *By Alex Walker*
> 
> This election is not about race.
> 
> I repeat, this election is not about race.
> 
> This election is about the worst president in U.S. history: George W. Bush.
> 
> On the eve of the latest presidential primaries, the high-minded, 
> high-faluting, so-called-liberal /New York Times/ published an editorial 
> titled “Mr. Obama and Rev. Wright 
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/opinion/30wed1.html?_r=ref=opinion&oref=slogin&oref=slogin>.”
> The /NYT/ declared "this country needs a healthy and open discussion of 
> race."
> 
> My hometown /Los Angeles Times/ followed suit with "The Wright Choice 
> <http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-obama1-2008may01%2C0%2C1603861.story>" 
> - observing that the issue of race:
> 
>     ... which invokes fundamental questions about the role of government
>     and the distribution of wealth, is something the candidates should
>     be discussing...
> 
> No!
> 
> Candidates should be discussing the war, healthcare, schools and the 
> catastrophic failure of Bush's so-called conservatism. . .
> 
> Our race-obsessed Los Angeles intellectuals were delighted by Obama's 
> failure.
> 
> Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD (with a name like that and a PhD he must be 
> an expert), declared "Race Trumps Change 
> <http://www.blackcommentator.com/269/269_btl_race_trumps_change.html>"
> 
>     Race is America and America is (and always has been about) Race.
>     While race (and gender) has tried to be subordinated to the politics
>     of hope and change - even to the extent of this Presidential
>     campaign was (is) being called, 'the age of post-racial politics,'
>     ... race is poised to trump change, in hopes that things don't
>     change - but remain the same.” 
> 
> Jasmyne Cannick, nationally famous LGBT activist wrote in /The Los 
> Angeles Sentinel/ that "The White Man's Burden is Not the Black Man's 
> Responsibility 
> <http://www.lasentinel.net/The-White-Mans-Burden-is-Not-the-Black-Mans-Responsibility.html>":
> 
>     Well I guess on the bright side of things, there should be no more
>     questions about whether or not Senator Barack Obama is a
>     Christian... It seems that it's not enough that we've adopted their
>     religion and most Blacks are worshiping to their White blue-eyed
>     Jesus, but now they want to dictate the message that we receive as
>     well. And in the process, they've backed Obama against a wall
>     forcing him to publicly distance himself from his pastor in order to
>     prove that he's not an angry Black man in disguise...
> 
> Brothers and sisters outside Los Angeles do not know this, but Ms. 
> Cannick's "day job" is in the office of California State Assemblyman 
> Mervyn Dymally. Mr. Dymally is supporting Hillary Clinton for president. 
> Ms. Cannick is also a big fan of Los Angeles Congresswoman Laura 
> Richardson. Ms. Richardson is not only supporting Hillary, but went out 
> of her way to campaign against Barack in Ohio.
> 
> Of course, citizens have every right to support Sen. Clinton - on real 
> issues. After all, there is not that much difference between Clinton and 
> Obama. However, these race games are disgusting. . .
> 
> One reason I left the Democrats and joined the California Green Party 
> was because I am one African American who is sick and tired of the race 
> games of the old politics. If Barack sincerely wants to transform U.S. 
> politics, it's already clear Democratic and Republican politicians, 
> preachers, and intellectuals won't let him. /The Boston Globe/ was more 
> honest than most in their editorial: "The Illinois senator has made a 
> career ... of promoting common understanding. ... To see those efforts 
> bogging down in the same old swamp is just depressing."
> 
> URL: 
> http://www.blackcommentator.com/278/278_dissent_no_more_race_talk_walker_guest.html 
> 
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