The Democratic Party's Slide Into Irrelevance
Attaching a poll ... Dems unfavorability rating increased from 45% to 57% during the Biden Administration.
By whose lights are we judging?
My opinion is the concept of race traitor is pretty dumb, and most people who invoke it do so for dubious reasons.
By the time John Brown started his insurrections, most of the European world was already on the way to abolishing slavery, so in some sense the pro-slavery folks were relative race traitors. It’d be sort of silly though to think that there is a right answer to that since I don’t even know that it’s a cognitive epithet but rather emotionally charged.
When’s the last time you called a white person a race traitor as you imply by calling Obama an Uncle Tom? lol
Obama. like Trump, is a traitor to the interests of all of humanity. Not simply those of his own race.
I think back to the musings of MLK Jr while housed in that prison in Birmingham.
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice
Barack Obama is the white moderate that MLK warned about. The only difference is his skin color.
My opinion is the concept of race traitor is pretty dumb, and most people who invoke it do so for dubious reasons.
this you tho?
I would argue that Obama is a slave. A very well-paid slave who jumps through the hoops his money master's demand.
Sure .... we'll give you $500,000 for 30 minutes. But when the time comes, you make sure that one of ours (Tom Perez) is running the DNC instead of one of theirs (Keith Ellison). You make sure that the black community knows that you think Bernie's policies are too far left.
So when Bernie wins the white vote in Iowa and New Hampshire and the latino vote in Nevada .... you make sure that we have that black vote firewall in S. Carolina.
Trump doesn't have the have the power to keep the popular demand for progressive policy stifled. Obama does, That makes him the most dangerous man in the world in my opinon.
The Romans have a term for the human lifecycle called Saeculum. It refers to an 80 year cycle in which seem to repeat ourselves.
It goes in a circle like this ....
Hard Times ==> Strong People ==> Good Times ==> Weak People ==> back to Hard Times.
The last hard times in America were the Depression and WW2. The good times took over in the post economic and baby boom,
Boomers (my generation) are the weak people. We have been the most privileged generational cohort in human history who haven't had to deal with hard times.
The hard times are returning as a result of our weakness. It's not our fault that we are weak .... we didn't choose to be born with such an easy life. That's just the way it worked out.
Obama is the quintessential Boomer. A weak president who abandoned the bully pulpit and wasted his oratorical skill on empty platitudes. We need a fighter. Someone who will harness the popular will and use public support as a political hammer like FDR did. Not someone like Obama who remains above the fray.
as spoken by the sage Joe Rogan
good company for you
now i have to remove that from my watch history or my recommendations will be ****ed
is tiger woods a race traitor and if so to which and on behalf of which
now i have to remove that from my watch history or my recommendations will be ****ed
is tiger woods a race traitor and if so to which and on behalf of which
Tiger Woods didn't run for political office and is not a political influencer. Not in any way comparable to Obama. He's also a mixture of race / ethnic heritage.
also according to reporting, tiger right here was on the horn with trump trying for the get out of anything free card so very much a political influencer
Tiger Woods didn't run for political office and is not a political influencer. Not in any way comparable to Obama. He's also a mixture of race / ethnic heritage.
obama mama is white
obamas mother is not remotely chinese or thai. she might be remotely dutch. she's just white.
tigers mother is thai
seems you have trouble telling them apart
I also have that northern european nothing white trash garbage background.
I remember my daughter being aghast that we had no ethnicity or culture in our family.
The only culture comes from the Germans. Irish culture is just getting hammered and singing a lullaby. English culture is, as discussed, colonialism.
What even is dutch culture. Are all their movies shot at that angle. what is the most famous dutch thing. not paying for your date?
His daughter is pursuing a career related to filmmaking ..... doesn't want to use the Obama last name. Imagine the shame of growing up in a world which is so callous to her generational cohort and your father is a poster child for that Boomer generation neglect of Gen Z.
The realization that dad is the enemy ..... that must cut deep.
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Okay, you're just spewing fumes at this point with w/e google can assist you in, Deuces.
Malia using her middle name in a film project isn't at all uncommon for popular people and doesn't suggest that she believes that her dad is the enemy. And using a study with a sample size of one, one that included and only included the daughter of POTUS, isn't some useful data point for understanding an entire generation ... outside of baseless useful forum bickering that is.
Boomers (my generation) are the weak people. We have been the most privileged generational cohort in human history
You could also argue that some hold very dictatorial and opinionated views with how others should be told to live.
If there was white slavery in Africa and a similar John Brown figure rose up amongst the Africans to oppose that race-based slavery, I think it would be weird to call them race traitors.
I think that it happens to serendipitously align that chattel slavery is not only a disgusting moral atrocity, but also happens to be economically awful for the people that practice it.
In fact I would echo the words of Karl Marx on this:
“While the workingmen, the true political powers of the North, allowed slavery to defile their own republic, while before the Negro, mastered and sold without his concurrence, they boasted it the highest prerogative of the white-skinned laborer to sell himself and choose his own master, they were unable to attain the true freedom of labor, or to support their European brethren in their struggle for emancipation; but this barrier to progress has been swept off by the red sea of civil war.”
How come no one discusses the fact the slavery is not only a white vs black institution ?
There was slavery in Africa before white people ever arrived there. Jews were slaves in Egypt. Feudal Europe. Greek & Roman Empires.
Humans have enslaved each other for millennia. Not just the last 400 years.
Tiger didn't actually kill anyone, and he called a President, he didn't run for the office. He's got nothing on big Ted.
