Glen Ford: Breaking the Obama Spell, at the United National Peace Conference 7/23/2010

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Glen Ford of the Black Agenda Report speaks about creating a culture of resistance and organizing progressives to stand up to Obama's support of militarism, at the United National Peace Conference in Albany, New York, July 23, 2010.

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[ByronicElectronic]

Go Glen Ford Go! I love Glen Ford and the amazing Black Agenda report. Obama is a totalitarian war monger who has betrayed his own people and the whole country. We need to give up on both major parties in the USA. Both the democrats and republicans are a lost cause. Time to move on!

[starrra1]

AS A BLACK  MAN AND A FREE THINKER ! THANKS GLEN FOR UNDENIABLE TRUTH

[jjtb4v]

While I agree with most of what Glen says, his attacks on a centrist like Obama shows to me that Glen doesn't see ALL of the big picutre. Namely, the political pendulum - the mindset of our nation - has been swung to the far right over the last 40 years. Unless you are ready for complete revolution in this country - and I mean bloody, then we must work to swing the pendulum back to the left - and that requires patience and endurance by showing average Americans Government CAN be Good.

[freein2339]

Sounds like more "crabs-in-a-barrel" nonsense

[TheGreenVoter]

How did Chris Rock put it in Kill the Messenger? "Why can blacks say nigger but whites can't? Because blacks and whites are NOT equal; one group is clearly FAR more powerful than the other, and saying nigger is one of the few advantages to being black. Tell ya whut: Let's trade places -- y'all scream nigger and we'll raise interest rates ..." I'm paraphrasing from memory, but that's basically what Rock said.

[Trilibites]

TheGreenVoter. Ah, a zinn moment. If a prominate "White" had made such a un-resounding statement - leaving out the; 'social movement', 'powerful enough', 'insistent enough' - and simply said the one word - "ANGRY" enough - it would have been pounded over every radio & TV wave and [sic]Newspaper in America laced with "racist" "biggot" & "Hate" slurs. At one time I had hope for black ascendancy to education & prominance- No, you're just black biggots who don't want equality - you want to Rule.

[Trilibites]

@TaxService and you are a Marxist, progressive operative.

[Trilibites]

Listen to this speach by Mr. Glen Ford one more time - but, this time replace the word "Black" - with the word "White" replace (in your mind) Mr. Fords black face - with a "white" face . Had this been the case; Mr. Fords "white" face and most provocative words would have been drummed for weeks on end over NBC,CBS,ABC,CNN and PBS and to a lesser extreme even on FOX News.

Are we all really dumb enough to believe that all this one sided chorus is not contrived, coordinated & targeted?

[jcp61874]

@hamadiw Well said!!! Malcolm X was slightly darker than Glen Ford. Would anybody in their right mind then or now gonna challenge Malcolm X's credentials on blackness? Pork chop (or super black skin game politics) should have died in the 60's. But clowns like BlackStealth1000 will always be around it seems.

[fistofthenorthstar89]

@TaxService This is all reality based. Don't be a dupe Obama. The problem is not hate fear ect. But OLIGARCHY. The power-elite that put Obama in power and whom he serves now. Objectively ask yourself: What has Obama done for progressives in general? NOTHING. He's in the process of looting social security as we speak. Before he took office he was a Wall Street puppet organizing the black caucus for the bailout. And he was a foundations operative.