Cobb: What Hateration Sounds Like

January 09, 2004

What Hateration Sounds Like

Sometimes it's hard to be charitable. The Black Commentator wastes several thousand words attempting to smear Barras for not bowing down... It weird that I find myself getting so hot-headed about this that the words coming out of my keyboard sound like Thomas Sowell at his most apoplectic. But man this is pure madness:

All three of Barras� icons are members of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), the right wing of the Party. This is not surprising, since Barras is a servant of the DLC. Her March-April 2003 article in the DLC house organ Blueprint was a love note to Rep. Davis, who defeated Congressman Earl Hilliard on the strength of corporate and Israel lobby money just a few months before Denise Majette did the same thing to Cynthia McKinney in Georgia. Having knocked off two Black members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, the Right now claims to have tapped into a conservative current in African American politics. The reality is, Big Business, with the assistance of rightwing Zionists, have deployed their checkbooks to defeat progressive Black politicians. The same money draws flies like Barras, who are then provided space in corporate media.

Straight out of left field and into a mind-numbing zone of hyperbole. I wonder how I'm going to manage to deal with this kind of ignorance. It's very difficult to respond because it doesn't seem to recognize that blackfolks think for themselves.

Aside from all that, you can just feel the desparate pain of loss in this. Those were our black people, and now they'be been replaced by these other black people we don't understand! It's evil! It's Jews! Tsk.

Posted by mbowen at January 9, 2004 01:35 AM

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