Comments on: Cuckoo

By: douglas clark

douglas clark — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:14:56 +0000

Hi. First time I’ve posted here, got here through the link @ 5.

That was a very interesting post. It certainly seems to be the case that Black America is still wildly misunderstood by White America.

My admiration for Barak Obama, from a complete outsiders point of view - I am Scottish, if it matters - went up enormously when he didn’t cut Wright loose. Which is, more or less what we’ve become accustomed to with politicians generally. What Barak Obama did was to break that lazy, pernicious idea that you give up your friends, or anything in fact, for your political ambitions. He didn’t do that, and I’d be astonished if most Americans don’t see that as a good thing.

By: Buster

Buster — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:17:44 +0000

He left room for discussion with those so wounded by our systems that they would like to see such damning. Good thing, too, because as the papier maché edifice of Republican America collapses around us, it might do us some good to chat with those who have vigorous misgivings about the last few decades, or, as is the case with the black clergy, the last few centuries.

This is a great, succinct statement of what’s right with Obama.

Nice post.

By: Pickled Politics » Obama’s Humanity and (Moving Beyond?) Race Politics

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:55:00 +0000

[...] I’d recommend this excellent article on Chapati Mystery, which also brings in religion in order to understand race in America. Hypereducated and [...]

By: captainjohann

captainjohann — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:33:23 +0000

Sir,
Whether OBAMA is elected or not, he has done singular service to the americans and people worldwide that telling truth and taking problems head on are still great virtues even for a politician.

By: tsk

tsk — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:06:43 +0000

i just can’t quit you, farangi. another well-done post. to the point and spot-on.

you have a way with words and logical reasoning. have you ever thought of going into law? ;o)

By: lapata

lapata — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:36:48 +0000

Now I’d like a post on the hateful rhetoric of the fictitious-sounding Rev. Rod Parsley (whose children, according to Wikipedia, are named Austin and Ashton, a boy and a girl. Are we sure the entire Parsley family is not something found among the discarded characters of Evelyn Waugh?).

By: Desi Italiana

Desi Italiana — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:56:03 +0000

“Hypereducated and underthoughtful white people–whom, you might have noticed, tend to show up on your television a lot–are generally ignorant of American religion. Many have spent their upper-middle class, devotion-free existences shuttling from suburban McMansion to private prep school to great university to posh media post.”

This is so true. Most of the hard-core evangelists I’ve met are not only middle class, but upper class Texans who have large, beautiful mansions out in the boon dogs. It’s incredible that astonishingly successful businessmen will say the most– excuse my characterization- mind-boggling crap.

“This braid–of white frustration and denial, and of righteous black anger and claims to exceptional, sometimes vicarious suffering–is unique in that it doesn’t claim to invite us to harmony.”

This bit here tangentially reminds me of how histories are perceived differently by various groups of people. There’s some headway being made to introduce a more variegated, inclusive, and critical history, but not as much as I’d like.