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word is that the u.s. will boycott the un conference on racism unless all references to israel and reparations for slavery are dropped. those youth who were dancing in the street as if che had come to power on election day, will likely gloss over this, in silence if possible. of course, the u.s. is institutionally racist, so i don't blame obama, as such, for this disgrace. but he is the top dog, no? if he wanted, he could have said to go ahead with the meeting. i mean, he's got the gig now. but he never had progressive ideas. he never wanted to challenge power. rather, he wanted power. and he's got it.

word is, in an effort to "reach out to the other side," obama will be speaking at a klan rally.

for they too, are americans.

yeah man, wild. but i suppose it's not surprising that the u.s. is boycotting a conference on racism, considering we have yet to actually boycott racism. racism has been too good to white america and to the power elite to expect any real effort made to face our past and present racial inequalities. obama fits in with this quite well. he has put the cosby show in the white house. that means a 24/7 downplaying of anything having to do with racism. that is how elections are won, power is kept, corporations are made content, and middle america is kept swooning. and there is always the next election.

the fact is, if obama was a "race man," he never could have won the election. he had the black vote; that he knew. but there aren't nearly enough of those for a man to grab the big gig. no, charlie is needed for that. and i'm not speaking of bird's dial recordings. no, the cracker ass cracker is needed, and you can't get him as a "race man." no, that makes you "angry," "stuck in the past," "radical," and the like. obama swings with the elite. he always has. you can't make it with the elite and go after them at the same time. that's not to say that some in the power elite wouldn't have wanted a republican. but obama was acceptable. if he wasn't the first choice, he was one of the choices. jesse or sharpton could never have been that, because they touch too many nerves, as crackers kucinich and gravel also did.

identity has nothing to do with it. it's ideology. it's your place in power. obama can boycott a conference on racism as well as any white man.

it's the gig, man.

we need to change that, not whose in power.

the gig itself is rotten, because the system is rotten, and anybody who succeeds in getting that gig in our country will, by necessity, do rotten work. some will be worse than others, and those differences do at times matter.

but rotten is rotten.

just ask those folks at the un who only wanted to talk about war crimes and crimes against humanity, past and present.