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>From someone who is on this anti-war, anti-imperialist list, this argument is sick!! I.e., that one should not slam the current despicable president because he is black (somewhat).
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<div>On Aug 27, 2013, at 5:34 PM, Gregg Gordon wrote:</div>
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<div><span>Well, not exactly the reasoned responses that might lead to a meeting of the minds that I was hoping for, but as Lincoln said, "We must use the tools we have." At least it allows me to be brief.</span></div>
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<span>No, I was not trying to imply that, and I did not imply that. My purpose was not to discuss Obama's policies, foreign or domestic, or what constitutional amendments our (in other contexts) racist Founding Fathers left us he may or may not have violated.
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<div>But in your own ways, you illustrate my point perfectly. Because I also read right-wing blogs, just to try to figure out how they think, and take my word, they're some pretty vicious racists. And I find the tone and even the language you two have employed
here indistinguishable from what I find there. I find that amazing. And to the extent those blogs remind me of nothing so much as a lynch mob, I find it more than amazing. I find it appalling. I know the enemy of my enemy is my friend, but for an anti-racism
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Cornell West notwithstanding, most of the black people I know like Obama and are proud that he is president, and black turnout in the most recent election tells me my friends are not outliers. It seems to me an anti-racism effort would be wise to take that
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, August 27, 2013 3:13 PM<br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="4">Gee Greg,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="4">I hope your not trying to imply that becasue Obama is African American that he should be given a blank check to commit war crimes and impoverish Working Americans, especially African American Workers ?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="4">This is EXACTLEY what the 1% ruling class of this country hoped for when they recruited and helped get Obama elected.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="4">Frankly, while we are on the subject, some of the harshest critics of Obama have been Cornell West and Black Agenda Report.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="4">Not to mention that if you research Obama's REAL history, you will see that he has NO common experience with the average African American in the U.S.. or for that matter any Working American.</font></div>
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<div style="FONT:10pt arial;"><b>To:</b> <a rel="nofollow" title="brussel@illinois.edu" ymailto="mailto:brussel@illinois.edu" target="_blank" href="mailto:brussel@illinois.edu">
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<div style="FONT:10pt arial;"><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 27, 2013 12:38 PM</div>
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<div><span>I realize I'm probably opening a can of worms with this, but I've been wondering for a long time and all the March on Washington stuff this weekend brought it back to mind.</span></div>
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<span>Why does an organization whose purpose is to fight racism so often speak with such hostility toward our first black president? It's obviously counter-intuitive, but I wonder if it also might not be counterproductive.</span></div>
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<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, August 25, 2013 9:39 PM<br>
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<div>I would add that this administration is now specifically threatening, and waging covert activities against, Iran and Syria, two countries of no threat to the U.S., but who are seen by this administration as a threat to "our national interests", that of
corporate America and its clients.
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<div>But in any case a useful statement. </div>
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The Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana (AWARE)<br>
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AWARE was founded immediately after the attacks of September 11, 2001, by residents of Champaign-Urbana and members of the University of Illinois, who saw that the U.S. government would use those crimes as an excuse to carry on and expand its wars for the control
of Middle East energy resources. For a dozen years members and friends of AWARE have worked to end the killing by informing their fellow citizens of the real nature of the "war on terrorism," in opposition to the largest and most sophisticated propaganda campaign
in history, conducted by the Bush and Obama administrations, and directed at the American people.<br>
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Today the U.S. government is threatening, invading, and occupying countries in a vast circle with a 2500-mile radius around the Persian Gulf, from north Africa to the borders of India and China, a region sometimes called the "Greater Middle East." (The U.S.
military calls it "Central Command.") This region has the world's greatest concentration of oil and natural gas, and our government is spending hundreds of billions of dollars, month after month, to control it. Control and not just access to these energy resources
is what our government demands. We in fact import little of our own oil supplies from the Mideast - most of our imported oil comes from the western hemisphere, notably Canada and Venezuela - but control of world energy supplies gives the U.S. an unparalleled
advantage over our economic rivals in Europe and Asia.<br>
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President Obama is killing men, women, and children around the world to "fight terrorism," he claims, but as Noam Chomsky explains, “The Obama administration is dedicated to increasing terrorism ... it’s doing it all over the world. Obama ... is running the
biggest terrorist operation that exists ... The drone assassination campaigns ... are just part of it; special forces operations and so on, all of these operations, they are terror operations.” The U.S. Special Operations Command - in fact a 25,000-member
private army run by the president - are American death squads, who by their own account are operating in more than a hundred countries around the world. No wonder we are hated in those countries.<br>
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If you object to the Obama administration's conducting illegal and unjustified war - and lying about the reasons for it - join us. AWARE meets every Sunday evening 5-6pm at the White Horse Inn on in Champaign, near the UIUC campus. We discuss the war and plan
activities like the following:<br>
~ Street demonstrations. For more than a decade AWARE has conducted demonstrations and distributed information about the war; they now occur on the first Saturday of every month, 2-4pm, at Main and Neil Streets in downtown Champaign. All are welcome to join
us.<br>
~ Information tables. At the Urbana Farmers' Market and other public events, like the Sweet Corn Festival and the Taste of Champaign, AWARE has tables with free printed information on the war and books, t-shirts, buttons and bumper stickers at cost.<br>
~ Television programs. AWARE produces a weekly hour of discussion on the war, "AWARE on the Air," seen Tuesdays at 10pm on Urbana Public Television <<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.urbanapublictelevision.org/">http://www.urbanapublictelevision.org/</a>>.
The program is recorded unrehearsed at noon on Tuesdays in the UPTV studios. Members and friends of AWARE are invited to attend and participate in the discussion.<br>
~ Articles in the local media. Letters to the Editor in the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette and even the Daily Illini are one of the few ways to join a general political discussion locally.<br>
~ Demands to elected representatives. People in Champaign-Urbana are represented in Congress by Senators Dick Durbin and Mark Kirk, and by Representative Rodney Davis. All three support the administration's wars and assassinations - and are in fact urging Obama
to expand the killing. You can register your opinion by calling their Washington DC offices, which can be reached at 202-224-3121. (Say that you are calling from Illinois' 13th Congressional District.)<br>
~ Internet presence. AWARE conducts two email mailing lists, which you can join on the websites: <<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace">https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace</a>> for announcements,
and, for discussion of the war, <<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss">https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss</a>>. You can join the discussion on our Facebook page: <<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/305897426305/">https://www.facebook.com/groups/305897426305/</a>>.<br>
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AWARE honors the whistleblowers - Manning, Assange, Snowden<br>
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