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See below a link to my blog post on the latest Jeremiah Wright thing. <br>
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Alex Walker <br>
Los Angeles Greens <br>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"><a href="http://www.greencommons.org/node/1003">So
Much For Our 'Conversation' On Race</a></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">by Alex Walker <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Posted on Green Commons, May 1, 2008</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">When everybody started saying "Let's have a <em>conversation</em>
about race", I wrote a blog post saying "No, Let's Not." (see on
<em>Green Commons</em> <a href="http://www.greencommons.org/node/952">Let's
Talk About Race? NO! Let's Not</a> on January 26th). My first post was a
reaction to Uzodinma Iweala's Op-Ed in the <em>Los Angeles Times</em>, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-iweala23jan23,0,4547635.story">"Racism
in 'Post Racial' America"</a> (with 'post racial' in quotes) criticizing
the "media-concocted fiction" that "not speaking about race is
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">I still say: <strong>No! No! No!<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Every time this produces a net gain for
conservatives by reminding "Reagan Democrats" why they abandoned the
party of F.D.R. for the party of George Bush. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">If I am the only African-American progressive
opposing this farce, so be it. U.S. politics has been stuck in this rut for
more than thirty years and it is very hard to resist being pulled into it. I,
like Barack, allowed myself to get suckered into defending Wright. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">One reason I left the Democrats and joined the <strong>Green
Party</strong> was because I am one African-American sick of "race"
games. If Barack sincerely wanted to "transform" U.S. politics, it's
already clear he cannot within the framework of our cursed Democrat-Republican
politics where "social issues" always substitute for bringing up hard
questions offending corporate interests. The <em>Boston Globe</em> editorial
was more honest than most in <a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2008/05/01/rev_wright_the_sequel/">Rev.
Wright, the sequel</a>: "The Illinois senator has made a career... of
promoting common understanding among those who might distrust each other. To
see those efforts bogging down in the same old swamp is just depressing."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">That's the depressing "swamp" of
Democratic-Republican politics.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Read More on Green Commons at: <o:p></o:p></span></font></i></div>
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