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No. 377 Sept 9th, 2012 this week
Lesson of The Threes
The American Disgrace of Hurricane Katrina
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The American Disgrace
The Horror We Don't Discuss
Hurricane Katrina exploded the myth of a post-racial America, a convenient lie exposed all the more by the ascendancy of Barack Obama. In truth, there had been no healing, no true social compact. White and Black America pretended there was, and, until Katrina, that pretense was just as good as the real thing. Katrina, or, more specifically, the unending horror of the 24-hour news cycle covering the disaster, changed all that. We were bombarded, ever minute of every hour, day after day, with the specter both White and Black America had ridiculously attempted to ignore: the literal epitome of the black stereotype: histrionic, inarticulate, irrational. And we, both black and white, were taken aback—not only by the natural disaster but by the social one. It was as if Jim Crow had ended but nobody told them. Who were these people? Where did they come from? These were, literally, forgotten people. Expendable in every conceivable sense. Seen by both blacks and whites as contributing little if anything to society. Uneducated and purposeless. The image Black America has worked diligently to dispel in the minds of White America. Every day of my adult life I have been forced, at social gunpoint and under threat to my professional career, to overcome this very image which I believe is deeply ingrained in the minds of most of White America: the ashy, uncouth, uneducated, inarticulate Negro living off the dole. This was not, of course, the whole story of Katrina's poorest victims, but for me, and I believe much of America, the shock that these people, in this day and age, still exist, was an electric one.
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No. 377 Sept 9, 2012
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by
the mercies of God, that ye present your
bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable
unto God, which is your reasonable service.
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be
ye transformed by the renewing of your mind,
that ye may prove what is that good, and
acceptable, and perfect,
will of God. —Romans 12:1-2
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The American Disgrace Of Hurricane Katrina
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Why (And What) Obama Is Losing
This is simply the most dreadful presidential campaign I’ve ever seen. The president is running a joyless, ham-handed campaign, apparently getting incredibly bad advice from the overly-caffeinated David Axelrod who is not allowing the campaign to say the right things. “The president’s policies have failed!” the Republicans say, over and over, and the Obama campaign drops the ball on the most obvious push back, “The Republicans have blocked or watered down every single thing the president has tried to do. Those weren’t the president’s policies, they were the watered-down, half-a-loaf policies he could pass through GOP obstructionism. And those policies have failed to rescue America from the mess the Republicans created.” This is the inelegant truth the Obama campaign refuses to proclaim, that Republicans have deliberately and capriciously kept the economy bad in an effort to get rid of him. They have invested, wholeheartedly, in American distress just so they could blame the president for it. The Obama campaign isn’t saying anything even close to that, as it goes on and on about Bain Capital and Romney’s tax returns, a strategy that does not address the fact that vilifying Romney is a waste of time. Nobody’s voting for Romney. They are voting against Obama. I have no idea why Axelrod and friends can't see that. The people voting Republican in November already know Romney isn’t about anything, they simply hate Obama and don’t actually care who wins so long as Obama loses. It baffles me why the Obama campaign, with all those college degrees, is running the wrong campaign against Romney. They shouldn’t be running against Romney at all. Romney, after all, is simply the symptom of the much larger disease of greed and right-wing fanaticism, which the Obama campaign is barely engaging. They’re spending billions telling America what we already know: Mitt Romney is a joke. They are not laying out the narrative of not only what the president has accomplished but what the Republicans have obstructed: the things America could be doing, could be about, had the GOP—completely co-opted by the extreme wing-nut foam-rubber-Statue Of Liberty Hat crowd—focused on governing instead of spending the last three and one-half years focused exclusively on getting Obama out of office. *That* would be a compelling and effective narrative, but the Obama campaign continues to meander, with a befuddled and confused-sounding Axelrod stuttering through the Sunday talk shows while Vice President Joe Biden continues to go off like a loose canon. Obama himself, meanwhile, seems to lack fire, thunder, and genuine interest in winning. He seems tired, weary, and likely disappointed to discover how incredibly uninformed and, therefore, gullible the American public is.
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