[Peace-discuss] Pitfalls of identity politics

[Jenifer Cartwright]

MY answer related to yr posting. I don't see how yrs relates to mine.

"C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:  I have no brief for Obama, who I've thought for a while is a fraud (see "Illinois Anti-Warriors and the Attractive Senator" ).

But Hillary is at least as bad. In a well-run state, she'd be visiting her husband, in prison for war-crimes in 
the Hague.

It's a testimony to how sophisticated our primary system is -- how far it is from democracy and how well it avoids any real political discussion -- that it will present us with an election in November between two PRO-war candidates, even though a majority in the country has been anti-war for some time. That's an accomplishment beyond the dream of the crude 20th-century totalitarianisms. (And that minority in the country, the self-regarding "educated" classes, are complicit with this outcome.) --CGE


---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:01:07 -0800 (PST)
>From: Jenifer Cartwright 
>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Pitfalls of identity politics 
>To: "C. G. Estabrook" , peace-discuss at anti-war.net
>
> So... because we cannot legislate morality and
> sometimes lotsa folks will disregard laws, we'd
> better leave them off the books until we're sure
> they can be enforced? The facts are these: black men
> got the vote 50 years before women... Native
> Americans were not granted citizenship (in the
> country formerly known as "theirs") until 1924...
> and finally got voting rights in 1944. Another fact:
> It's a damned good thing LBJ got JFK's legislation
> passed, because that was the whole point of MLK's
> movement... and smearing HRC for pointing that out
> was dirty pool.
> --Jenifer 
>
> "C. G. Estabrook" wrote:
>
> Ishmael Reed's Tour De Force on Race and Gender in
> America
> ...


       
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