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24 de Junio, 2008
The Aroma of Justice
Categorized under Acción , Blogando , Historia , Juegos , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: African Americans, Amigos and Amigas, Blacks, blogs, DNCC08, Feminism, George Carlin, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Power to the People, Protest, RNC
AMIGA CARMEN talks about how some pissed off Hillary supporters are stewing and planning on disrupting the Democratic National Convention and of understanding their anger...but not their cause.
George Carlin talks about how most of Feminism's concerns don't involve women of color.
Nezua is remembering when he was pissed off that Bush Supporters and Republicans were breezing into NYC to rally around the gravesite of the WTC as if it meant good things for their party and he marched with many others to block up the streets with anger and joy. And was promptly arrested and kept in the Tombs and Pier 57 for days. He is then laughing about how so many in the HillaryMania threads are framing their anger in the language of feminism and anti-misogyny...and threatening to vote for McCain.
With no mention at all of Cynthia McKinney.
And Nezua is, still, missing George Carlin.
Anyway, Hillary Soldiers (and I include you at Corrente!): I think you should all go to Denver. To the convention. Honestly. Don't worry about the 18 million that was spent on security. Don't worry about the Tasers and Microwave guns and Diarrhea guns they are bringing. Just show up with your fury. Raise hell in those "Free Speech Zones," which are kept well out of sight of anything important. Or raise hell right in the convention, as Rush Limbo wants. I say bring the whole shenanigans to a screeching squirting halt, why not? The Democratic party is clearly hopelessly corrupt, they are selling out their supporters and the People since long before the 2006 elections, when we dared hope those might bring justice. Dems and Repubs, Pepsi and Coke, stealing all the shelf space and still rotting out your teeth and stomach lining.
I know. Even after this last insult to our intelligence, we're simply to hope some more. I feel you. And you know I been feeling you.
Which is why I'm bringing lots of extra tapes and cameras and microphones. I hope to capture whatever happens. If the Hilllarized Ones have their way, I'm seeing something like that pie-eating-spewing contest scene in Stand By Me. But with red-white-and-blue confetti, and probably smelling something like...Hope!
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Comentarios (5)
meep
dijo:
The funny thing is, I've actually told the few people I can talk politics to about McKinney. It's sad that no one knows about her.
Palabras por meep
spat forth on el 24 de Junio, 2008 at 10:53 AM
Carmen D. dijo:
Awww yeah. I cannot wait to see how you'll tell the stories you find at the convention. I am so stoked that you (and Kai) are going. Give 'em hell...but try to stay out of the sh*t. [PS Amigo, my donation to getting you (and Kai) to Denver is coming as soon as I fix my Paypal account.]
Palabras por Carmen D. spat forth on el 24 de Junio, 2008 at 11:47 AM
nezua
dijo:
thanks carmz! and just so it is posted here, you can also just use a credit card on that link, dont have to have paypal.
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meep, it's not surprising considering she is a) black b) woman c) third party. but yeah, it is sad.
Palabras por nezua
spat forth on el 24 de Junio, 2008 at 12:50 PM
Lyra dijo:
i love that second link, lol. My grandma wasn't a white woman in the US. ::smh:: I love statements like that.
Palabras por Lyra spat forth on el 25 de Junio, 2008 at 09:48 AM
Joan Kelly dijo:
I am so discouraged right now about this whole dang thing, the election. I don't think anger about the misogyny itself is misplaced or an overreaction or anything. What is sinking my heart these days is the way I feel like things are obscuring each other, like this big tangle of wiring or something and that it's never going to get unwound.
Sharp and necessary discussions about racism and racist sexism in connection with the Obama campaign are pitted against (seems to me anyway, sometimes) his just-a-flawed-politician-like-the-rest-of-them-ness. Because he will clearly not be some progressive savior dude, the pain and joy inherent in a black person winning the Democratic presidential nomination is somehow beside the point.
Disgust with the woman-hating that flowed so freely from (according to the sane people I hear talking about it) most noticeably white "progressive" men, in connection with Clinton's womanness, gets conflated with those who express the astonishing idea that a nomination could "belong" to a person and get "stolen" by voters. And the latter group seems to have an impossible time grasping what could possibly be problematic about putting forth one powerful white woman as the representative of womanhood itself. Did not help that Obama reportedly called some lady "sweetie," but that still does not mitigate what's off about loud proclamations from any white person telling any black person to bow down to another white person.
And that's what I mean about it - the things that seem important to me, relevant to this historic moment, are getting drowned out and mixed up with everything that seeks to make this moment repetitive instead of regenerative. It's like you can't get the right cord plugged in because of all the time spent addressing/trying to untangle the mess that's got it in knots.
I have not abandoned hope altogether, but, yeesh. And my newly acquired diarrhea-gun-awareness did not help!
Palabras por Joan Kelly spat forth on el 27 de Junio, 2008 at 06:07 AM