Is Obama's Victory Ours? - Mumia Abu-Jamal

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Higher Quality Audio files available info@prisonradio.org. With the attainment of the required delegates to claim the Democratic Party's nomination for U.S. president, Sen. Barack H. Obama (D. ILL.) has written a new page in American history. For by so doing he succeeds where Channing Phillips, Shirley Chisholm, Jesse Jackson, Sr., and Al Sharpton could not - by gaining the necessary delegates to demand nomination. Of course, there have been numerous Black candidates for president, but these have been third party efforts designed more to raise issues, to organize or protest than to actually win elections. Some of the best known have been Eldridge Cleaver (former Black Panther Minister of Information), Dick Gregory, Dr. Lenora Fulani, and the former congresswoman, Cynthia McKinney. But this is a different kettle of fish, for Obama's candidacy is the closest to make it to the winner's circle. What also distinguishes Obama from his predecessors is he doesn't come from civil rights, Black liberation, socialist or anti war movements. (He often remarks at speeches, "I'm not against all wars, I'm just against dumb wars") Indeed, although his detractors may try to paint him as a leftist liberal this is hardly true. On issues both foreign and domestic he would've been more at home in the Republican Party of his senatorial forebear, Edward Brooke of Massachusetts. For though he is Black by dint of his African father, he has studiously avoided Black political groups in his long, harrowing climb to the rim of the White House. He has studiously avoided the very real and long standing grievances of Black America. In fact, he tried to run a 'post-racial' campaign until Sen. Hillary R. Clinton (D.N.Y.) (and her rambunctious husband, former Pres. Bill), brought race front and center during the Super Tuesday February primaries, by trying to pigeonhole him as 'the Black candidate'. This primary wounded Obama, and as he won in the delegate count, he also lost a number of primary states, such as Ohio and Pennsylvania, which are necessary for a win in November. Politics is the art of making people believe that they are in power when in fact, they have none. It is a measure of how dire is the hour that they've passed the keys to the kingdom to a Black man. As in many American cities, Black Mayors were let in when the treasuries were almost barren, and tax bases were almost at rock-bottom. With the nation's manufacturing base also a thing of history, amidst the socioeconomic wreckage of globalization, with foreign affairs in shambles, the rulers reach for a pretty, brown face to front for the Empire. 'Real change that you could believe in' would be an end to Empire, and an end to wars for corporate greed, not just a change of the shade of the political managers. That change, I'm afraid, is still to come.

--(c) '08 maj




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[salaa786123]

Obama bombed Africa.

[PhillyCopsAreCorrupt]

Mumia should have been freed after serving five years, which he would have been IF he had murdered a civilian under identical circumstances. This is a classic third-degree murder case. The fact that pigs' lives are given more value by lawmakers screams volumes about the contempt which legislators have for anyone who is not a political hack. Ironically, Philly pigs' lives are worth less than anyone else's because pigs are felons, so killing one should result in a lighter, not harsher, sentence.

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[Rachel Zeno]

Hes the leopard

[cmsa1r]

Stupidity on steroids

[PhillyCopsAreCorrupt]

Mumia is no saint, but he is still more honorable and moral than ANY Philadelphia pig ever was. Mumia has never robbed, framed, tortured, killed or otherwise criminally victimized any innocent person, unlike all Philadelphia pigs. If pigs would just do the job which they are paid to do, and not feloniously trash anyone's Constitutional rights, there would not be so much hostility and rage towards them. When a pig commits a crime, his victim will retaliate, possibly against innocent citizens.

[TwiztedAnimator]

Obama is a good man? Obama is a Politician who will say anything he needs to say to get elected. Everything he said he was going to do was a lie and everything he said that Bush was bad for doing, he has done. Now we are in a War in Libya, Africa for nothing more than to steal Libyas' wealth and to control North Africa. How's that Change working out for you??

[rita1902]

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[todddguillory]

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