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In the words of Dr. Antony Monteiro comparing a failing Obama to established Black Radical Traditional: Cloistered
in elite universities and increasingly leaning towards neo-liberal ideas on
race, economics and politics, they (African American ideologues) are separated
from black working people, the poor and the black middle class. While Obama,
remains popular among African Americans as symbol of racial progress, his
policies, that favor large banks, Wall Street and the military, places him and
those black intellectuals who “take their cue” from him, at odds with the fundamental
economic and social interests of the vast majority of African Americans. On the
other hand, Obama’s insulting and practiced indifference to black suffering,
his performance of post racialism, while savage racism engulfs him, his family,
his presidency and all African Americans, his practice of keeping most blacks
at arms length, yet on occasion inviting chosen Negroes to the White House, is
nothing short of a put down of African Americans; behavior none of us would
accept from a white President, Democrat or Republican.
Banner-Haley
(Colgate University Professor of History) says, “Unable to make the connection either
with the immiserated black poor or many of those newly arrived in the black
middle class, black intellectuals found themselves visible, but encapsulated in
an insulated academic world that may listen but often does not hear and does
not act on the ideas, analyses, and prescriptions that these women and men
present . . . . .” Because they (black intellectual elitists) are preoccupied
with talking to white elites, they lack moral standing with black people. This
is the price they pay to integrate white elite and capitalist circles. This,
however, is only part of the problem. The larger part is that politically they
are race neo-liberals. At the highest levels there is hardly a radical among
them, unlike most in the past, who were race radicals. The other problem is
that they choose not to live among black people. They have separated themselves
in their life styles, culture, and aspirations form the working class and poor
in particular. . . . . there is no trajectory from Du Bois to
Obama. A more accurate description would be from Booker T. Washington, and race
compromise to Barack Obama and race neo-liberalism.
Comments, above from Black Agenda Report: http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/du-bois-obama-african-american-intellectuals-public-forum
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John SmithsonJuly 5, 2014 at 12:02 PM
Oh, but I do understand, more than you think. I am well aware of the connection between W.E.B. Du Bois (the father of the modern day Black Radical Tradition),connection and black Marxist intellectuals (I am talking true intellectuals, not the BS types represented by the Obamas) such as Jeremiah Wright (vulgar yet quite the intellectual), Professor Charles Haley, Dr. Anthony Monteiro, Cornel West, Tavis Smiley, Angela Davis, Mark Lamont Hill, Farah Jasmine Griffin, and Vijay Prashad, Martin Luther Jr., Audre Lorde, Malcolm X, Kwame Ture, Amiri Baraka and others. I don't mention these folks, because they represent a whole other-world, most unfamiliar to the readership. I worry about getting so far "into the weeds" in discussing Obama, his phoniness as a true intellectual, and those Black Marxist-oriented intellectuals (blacks and whites - such as Bill Ayers and Elizabeth Warren) named above, who have, for the most part, separated themselves from Obama, or, to put it more accurately, those who Obama has left out of his continuing "debate" as to the national conscience.
Indeed, his more privately stated rhetoric has been of the Radial type, but his 6 years as candidate/president have demonstrated an inability to manage a crisis for a Marxist, One World, Utopian purpose. He waits for a crisis, or, in some cases, facilitates such, and then the whole spinning circumstance flies apart, and we are left with, yet, another mess.
As far as Ab Lincoln, that is not the actual quote, but close enough. Apparently you have forgotten, that he was reluctant but willing to allow for the Civil War as a last ditch strategy of forcing racial change. If you are comparing Obama and Putin with Lincoln and the Civil War, well, that is a patently pathetic comparison.
Indeed, his more privately stated rhetoric has been of the Radial type, but his 6 years as candidate/president have demonstrated an inability to manage a crisis for a Marxist, One World, Utopian purpose. He waits for a crisis, or, in some cases, facilitates such, and then the whole spinning circumstance flies apart, and we are left with, yet, another mess.
As far as Ab Lincoln, that is not the actual quote, but close enough. Apparently you have forgotten, that he was reluctant but willing to allow for the Civil War as a last ditch strategy of forcing racial change. If you are comparing Obama and Putin with Lincoln and the Civil War, well, that is a patently pathetic comparison.
- AnonymousJuly 5, 2014 at 12:40 PMSo I could paste any of these names into a search engine and see a connection between that person and Radical Black Tradition? And Obama is not of that same mind-set? Seriously???ReplyDelete
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You misunderstand. He is plenty radical, but has no identity with the Black Radical TRADITION of a Martin Luther King, or a Malcolm X , or an Angela Davis. These folks where in the streets, some killed and others imprisoned, not the case for Barack Obama or his thuggish Enforcer, Eric Holder.
He is not fighting for an expansion of Black civil rights, per se; rather, he is fighting for a New World Order, one which would benefit blacks as well as all minorities (the whites be damned), or so he believes. Think about it, Radical Black Tradition was never about a borderless world, or a nation (the U.S.) being absorbed by a larger and irresistible New World Order.
Also, understand, it is clear that Obama's New World Order is precisely that, OBAMA's New World Order. In a sense, he is making it all up, on the fly and he sorely resents ANYONE who would detract from what he knows best as the Reformer of the World Social Economy. Why do you think he placed himself in the middle of two giant Greek pillars, or spoke as if a Messiah (earth cooling and oceans receding and all that nonsense) . . . this is not about pure and simple Marxist reform, but Obama's version of Marxist reform; he has imagined his own agenda, and in so doing, has separated himself from the very radicalism (Martin Luther King and company) that gave him the presidency. In affect, he is a plagiarist.
He was raised a privileged white kid, abandoned that reality when the time was right, and now pretends to be of the same ilk as many I have named. He is not. He has never marched in civil rights protest, or pushed a reform that was not of his creation or amendment. He has never spent time in jail for his beliefs, wrote a book on black social reform, offered a speech in the Radical Tradition, or distinguished himself as a civil rights leader at any level. He is an impostor and the Jeremiah Wrights/Anthony Monteiro/Cornel West of this world are well aware of this fact.
