...plus I have a nasty touch of the grippe.
Be back in action on Monday. Tanned, un-reasted, and probably not ready.
There's sure to be news to deal with but McCain In Israel is too delicious a topic to resist. So, is why exactly "God Bless America...No, God Damn America..." was such a terrible thing to say in the first place. If that's the worst thing someone can say then the Office Of Homeland Security, Thought, Concept and Expression Police Division, will be coming for my folks any day now. I sure heard worse EVERY DAY growing up and probably twice on Sundays.
I'll try to cover the waterfront when I'm done. Now, if I only take care of all the real work in front of me with a fever, minimal sleep and minimal sleep coming. My appetite's fine so I think it's just the grippe and not the flu.
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Feed a grippe, starve a flu. Or wait, is it the other way around?
Get well quick, hermano. Te necesitamo!
Hey, thanks for visiting me.... and I've been reading your comments on RDB with interest, and I think I may have to visit you more often.
Cuz um, I've secretly wondered about the "God Bless America" comment, but knew it was WAY touchy to take on without some serious research... and I hadn't gotten to the research.
Cuz well, I grew up in Harlem. Stuff like that was said/heard quite frequently.
TBM: Of course, you heard it all the time. Compared to what I'd heard I thought that Wright was pretty mild, really. But then again I didn't grow up with nationalism. The family hadn't been in the States that long anyway. It was always something along the lines of "yeah, this is OK for now, let's see what happens." Only insert swear words! I could go on and on about this subject but I agree with you. It does tend to make people a little jumpy. For me, it was no big deal living whereever. I didn't really have any particular investment in being "American."
The odd thing about once you make the move, you realize that the only thing they ever held over you was the privilege to live there. And if you didn't mind living somewhere else, than you gave yourself the power. Now, the USA is going to have to show me something in order to get me back. Kind of a flip-flop, no? Instead of my having to prove my patriotism, they have to prove their compassion.
But returning to Obama, Malcolm X and Dr.MLK,jr, for a moment, I think there's a reason that the topics we've raised are not in common currency. If it's plausible that Malcolm X and King were assassinated for political reasons having to do with anti-racism, it should be no surprise that Obama's speech is not playing well. When Obama was all about "unifying" with "Republicans" and "Independents" and affluent liberals it was fine. This speech was completely different. He was speaking to White Anger. Now, that's radical. If you're Dick Cheney the very last words you want to hear come out of Barack Obama's mouth is something that unites Black America with the Irish of South Boston or the Separatists of Idaho. Now, his candidancy is no longer a beauty pageant, it's a very serious movement. To not quite exculpate but to draw an equivalence between the Southie and Black American experience with the words "I understand" is to say "that's enough, no more."
And there is no shortage of people who will have everyone forget Malcolm X's hadj and King's support of the transit strike. Those are actually "incovenient truths." They look in retrospect quite a bit like what happened when Mandela was able to convince DeKlerk of the wrongness of apartheid.
Dick Cheney does not want a DeKlerk American style popping up and saying "yes, Barack, I agree perhaps we have a common enemy."
Hola hermano...are we feeling any better. I am. Thanks for the chat yesterday. :)
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