Yes – it is better to have Obama than Bush but his speech was nothing exceptional and what difference will it make anyway? He will be judged by what he does – plus he can’t do anything about Anglo-Irish Bank and the crooks, gamblers and thickos who run this country.
Don’t follow leaders, as Dylan said.
This from the Guardian appealed to my anarchist streak:
“There’s a gang of white hooligan thugs racketeers and extortionists in the area — Cynical old amoral hacks, they’ve run every scam and trick into the ground, and, after all, everything is sleight of hand and appearance when they are working out new ways to sell scams to people. They notice there’s a smart black guy on the block, new to the scammers game, but hey, he looks smart enough. But these old hoods, some of whom have their roots in prejudice and racism think twice — he’s a black guy after all, but hey, they relent in the end. They think “Oh, let the black guy play our scam huckster games, why not? It’s a new circus , we can dress up old tricks in a new guise after all, and get people to believe in the tawdry old show, all over again. Damn, I see some people are even bleary eyed and crying about the whole thing! “
And all the burlesque bling hip hop and carnival showmen and TV media black men and women came out to celebrate a black man in the white house, wiping away a tear and raising a black power clenched fist — Why? Because — Hey , a black brother gets to play the hoodlum bully boy gangster amoral thug, just like the white man!
That’s progress!
That’s progress — let’s dance and sing in the streets,and shed a tear, like it’s a new dawn — a righteous black man gets to have a go at the master’s bully boy game too!
Hallelujah!”
* See also Indymedia.ie
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