Truthfully, this is as good as it gets. We won’t have a chance like this again for some time-if ever, we know that, and we’ve fallen in line. The power structure has allowed this brotha to compete as long as he is clear on a few ground rules: no material changes will be made to the racist global economic order, Africa will not be liberated from its economic dependence on the World Bank and the IMF, and incremental changes in domestic economic institutions like the health care system will be permitted within certain limits.
From Skeptical Brotha’s post Barack Obama, a proxy for racial equality
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I don’t understand how people can call Obama a centrist. He’s been consistently ranked as one of the most liberal Senators around. If one of the most liberal Senators is too conservative for you, then you just aren’t going to find relief in American politics.