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"Capt. JG" <jganz@sailnow.invalid> wrote in message
news:MfadneYLsu4K4X3VnZ2dnUVZ_sTinZ2d@posted.bayareasolutions...
> First, body language:
>
>
> http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/sep2008/ca20080929_440972.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index+-+temp_managing
>
> Now, on to the big issues:
>
> Seven years ago, George W. Bush and his neocon pals wanted to lead this
> country in the worst way. Since 2001 they have. Now, nearing the end of
> perhaps the most disastrous U.S. presidency in history, the Democratic
> Challenger to the incumbent party should be interviewing potential cabinet
> members and checking out D.C. schools for his kids, observing the national
> election as mere formality. Bush has done everything in his power to give
> the White House keys to the Illinois Senator. But neither candidate from
> either party has packed his bags or booked a moving van just yet. This
> race is on when it should be all but over.
> To a serious minded voter, other than lipstick, pigs and flag pins, this
> election appears to be about the Big Three: war, the economy and energy.
> If it were only so, we would read Nov. 5 headlines Nov. 5 stating "Slam
> Dunk -- Mr. Obama Goes to Pennsylvania Avenue ." Bush and Cheney failed.
> McCain represents more of the same. Obama will bring us refreshing change.
> Why isn't Obama just kicking butt?
> Starting with Issue One, our current fiscal-conservative president spends
> $10 billion a month on the war in Iraq . A colossal Weapon of Mass
> Distraction, this war of vendetta not only took our aim off of Osama Bin
> Ladin but in so doing consumed vast amounts of human capital, effort and
> national focus in addition to yet untold money and lives. Surely, Mr.
> Obama has easily made his case for correcting course away from Bush's
> misguided efforts and restoring in the eyes of the world the respect and
> admiration once held for the United States of America .
>
> Here at home we demand our two presidential candidates to *really*
> address the failing economy. We ask this as if Iraq and the economy have
> nothing to do with one another. While this week's headlines are about
> Lehman and Hewlett Packard, lost jobs, a tumbling Dow and nervous world
> markets, there's no collective national connection between the failing
> economy and the money, time, energy and focus -- not to mention lives --
> being spent on an ill-conceived war, waged by a dysfunctional
> civilian-military leadership the likes we have never seen. Again, this
> should be a simple matter for Candidate Obama to connect the dots and set
> an agenda for restoring our economy. Another gift from W.
>
> Energy independence? The most embarrassing expression of the prevailing
> "conservative" view came from Rudolph Giuliani, Sept. 3, in St. Paul ,
> Minn. "Drill baby drill," he exhorted, focusing on the short-term divisive
> answer at the exclusion of any real long-term policy. Much like the
> VP/phenom who swept the nation, Sarah Palin, Rudy was rude, dismissive and
> denigrating of anyone who would disagree. Continue to produce and consume,
> produce more, consume more. The Republicans' creed is indistinguishable
> from that of any other addict: "I want what I want when I want it." Layup
> for Obama. Just talk up your sound energy policy that isn't knee-jerk and
> Johnny-come-lately. Make it three for three for the Democrats.
> Why is this election so close?
> Because there is a fourth issue. Virtually ignored, it is ever present,
> permeating all. "White privilege" is how we as a society accept and
> endorse long-held prejudices without thinking. No one is immune from the
> lens of white privilege. It colors everyone and everything including the
> Big Three as well as a host of lesser and non-issues from college and
> experience to family and relationships. How we all apply standards and old
> ways of thinking to our current candidates and issues will be the single
> largest determinant as to who resides in the house on Pennsylvania Avenue
> on Jan. 20.
> Read Tim Wise's article, "This is Your Nation on White Privilege," below.
> Wise, who wrote White Like Me: Reflections on Race >From a Privileged Son
> (Soft Skull Press), explains how the notion of white privilege is shaping
> this election, framing issues important and silly, and distorting
> messages. He is among the most prominent anti-racist activists in the U.S.
> , having given lectures in 48 states and on more than 500 college
> campuses. He has trained a multitude of teachers, corporate employees,
> non-profit organizations and law enforcement officers in methods for
> dismantling racism in their institutions.
> Far be it from me to point out which party cynically uses and daily
> manipulates white privilege to its advantage. I'm a uniter not a divider.
> But if you want to say that there is none happier or more at home with
> white privilege than the party that seated only 36 black delegates (out of
> 2,380) at its National Convention in Minnesota , I won't disagree.
> Read it and pass it on. It will color your world. Make you think. For the
> better.
> This is Your Nation on White Privilege
> September, 14 2008 By Tim Wise
> Tim Wise's ZSpace Page
> Join ZSpace
>
> For those who still can't grasp the concept of white privilege, or who
> are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps
> this list will help.
>
> a.. White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like
> Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of
> your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you
> or your parents, because "every family has challenges," even as black and
> Latino families with similar "challenges" are regularly typified as
> irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.
> b.. White privilege is when you can call yourself a "fuckin' redneck,"
> like Bristol Palin's boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes
> with you, you'll "kick their fuckin' ass," and talk about how you like to
> "shoot shit" for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible, all-American
> boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.
> c.. White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges in
> six years like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of,
> then returned to after making up some coursework at a community college),
> and no one questions your intelligence or commitment to achievement,
> whereas a person of color who did this would be viewed as unfit for
> college, and probably someone who only got in the first place because of
> affirmative action.
> d.. White privilege is when you can claim that being mayor of a town
> smaller than most medium-sized colleges, and then Governor of a state with
> about the same number of people as the lower fifth of the island of
> Manhattan, makes you ready to potentially be president, and people don't
> all piss on themselves with laughter, while being a black U.S. Senator,
> two-term state Senator, and constitutional law scholar, means you're
> "untested."
> e.. White privilege is being able to say that you support the words
> "under God" in the pledge of allegiance because "if it was good enough for
> the founding fathers, it's good enough for me," and not be immediately
> disqualified from holding office--since, after all, the pledge was written
> in the late 1800s and the "under God" part wasn't added until the
> 1950s--while believing that reading accused criminals and terrorists their
> rights (because, ya know, the Constitution, which you used to teach at a
> prestigious law school requires it), is a dangerous and silly idea only
> supported by mushy liberals.
> f.. White privilege is being able to be a gun enthusiast and not make
> people immediately scared of you.
> g.. White privilege is being able to have a husband who was a member of
> an extremist political party that wants your state to secede from the
> Union, and whose motto was "Alaska first," and no one questions your
> patriotism or that of your family, while if you're black and your spouse
> merely fails to come to a 9/11 memorial so she can be home with her kids
> on the first day of school, people immediately think she's being
> disrespectful.
> h.. White privilege is being able to make fun of community organizers
> and the work they do--like, among other things, fight for the right of
> women to vote, or for civil rights, or the 8-hour workday, or an end to
> child labor--and people think you're being pithy and tough, but if you
> merely question the experience of a small town mayor and 18-month governor
> with no foreign policy expertise beyond a class she took in
> college--you're somehow being mean, or even sexist.
> i.. White privilege is being able to convince white women who don't
> even agree with you on any substantive issue to vote for you and your
> running mate anyway, because all of a sudden your presence on the ticket
> has inspired confidence in these same white women, and made them give your
> party a "second look."
> j.. White privilege is being able to fire people who didn't support
> your political campaigns and not be accused of abusing your power or being
> a typical politician who engages in favoritism, while being black and
> merely knowing some folks from the old-line political machines in Chicago
> means you must be corrupt.
> k.. White privilege is being able to attend churches over the years
> whose pastors say that people who voted for John Kerry or merely criticize
> George W. Bush are going to hell, and that the U.S. is an explicitly
> Christian nation and the job of Christians is to bring Christian
> theological principles into government, and who bring in speakers who say
> the conflict in the Middle East is God's punishment on Jews for rejecting
> Jesus, and everyone can still think you're just a good church-going
> Christian, but if you're black and friends with a black pastor who has
> noted (as have Colin Powell and the U.S. Department of Defense) that
> terrorist attacks are often the result of U.S. foreign policy and who
> talks about the history of racism and its effect on black people, you're
> an extremist who probably hates America.
> l.. White privilege is not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is when asked
> by a reporter, and then people get angry at the reporter for asking you
> such a "trick question," while being black and merely refusing to give
> one-word answers to the queries of Bill O'Reilly means you're dodging the
> question, or trying to seem overly intellectual and nuanced.
> m.. White privilege is being able to claim your experience as a POW has
> anything at all to do with your fitness for president, while being black
> and experiencing racism is, as Sarah Palin has referred to it a "light"
> burden.
> n.. And finally, white privilege is the only thing that could possibly
> allow someone to become president when he has voted with George W. Bush 90
> percent of the time, even as unemployment is skyrocketing, people are
> losing their homes, inflation is rising, and the U.S. is increasingly
> isolated from world opinion, just because white voters aren't sure about
> that whole "change" thing. Ya know, it's just too vague and ill-defined,
> unlike, say, four more years of the same, which is very concrete and
> certain.
> White privilege is, in short, the problem.
>
>
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> "j" ganz @@
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