Melissa Harris-Lacewell urges Obama to talk about Black Women Leaders
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Melissa Harris-Lacewell Urges Obama to Draw on Political Rhetoric of African American Women Like Hamer, Chisholm & Jordan
The Democratic Party is preparing to pay tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King today ahead of Barack Obama's nomination speech. While Obama is expected to reference King's speech tonight, one of his longtime supporters is urging him to also draw on the political rhetoric of African American women, including Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker, Barbara Jordan and Shirley Chisholm. We speak with Melissa Harris-Lacewell.
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Black men have always been there for their families until they were forceablly removed from the home.
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You really think Obama is going to pay homage to Black Women? You want him to stand up for woman, but you made your choice when you choose him as your candidat and not a woman.
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The problem is, that Clinton kind of screwed that up when he made Jocelyn Elders the Surgeon General. She had to be fired after recommending that masturbation be taught and condoms be distributed in schools.
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Even though much of the content of Democracy Now is probably decent, I can`t listen to it due to Amy Goodman`s horrible gravely, croaky voice.
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I hated the Tubman reference. Does Clinton always has to rub blacks' slave history in their faces?
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If you had sex with her your IQ would raise 75pts
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@mogatsamasego who gives a rats behind about who wrote what, when it was written, yada yada yada.
This dead rhetoric has no validity within the neighborhoods of this country,except for the bourgeois black folks who can afford to sit around in their safe 7500 sq. ft condo, sipping ginobilis' and talkin' laudy daudy.
If people want to learn about these women or anyone else...go to the freakin' library and read a book.
In the meantime, people need jobs, clothes on the back, food in the stomach
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@SooperFlye Interesting. She says "'as Obama says 'we are the ones we have been waiting for.'" Actually Obama was borrowing (without acknowledging) from Alice Walker who has a 2006 non-fiction work by the same title.
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Melissa Harris-Lacewell is just brilliant. I can listen to her all day.
funkbrother216 2 years ago 8
A very intelligent Black woman. She is great and I agree 100% with what she said about those wonderful African-American women in politics.
LaFemmeNoireRocks 2 years ago 8