Martin Luther King spent his life warning about militarism, materialism, and racism. He fought his whole life against all economic exploitation and forces of militarism. In the mist of this global economic collapse, Dr King would of have confronted the military responses, and actively resisted the diversion of public wealth to the banker and the merchants of death.
Obama is empowered by the same people Dr King confronted and fought against for the duration of his life, of his battle to end the long night of racial injustice; the bankers and the militarist.
Obama is part of a black American elites, a hallow shell, a clay in the hand of the white elites that will do anything for a buck and nothing for their own people fate or well being.
Obama silence in the face of the purposely inflicted human right catastrophe perpetrated on the besieged people of Gaza is sign of his upcoming politic of change and racial justice. He was glorified by the Zionist media for his support of the terrorist, racist, and occupying Israeli forces.
Hating Arabs is not anymore just a Jewish thing, since the US invaded Iraq and killed millions of Arabs fully supported by the white gentile America.
Obama is committed to putting another hundred thousand marines and army men on the ground of Afghanistan/Pakistan and a bigger US military footprint on the planet. His silence and support of the genocide in Gaza is a shameful complicity in war crimes.
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this is an interesting post. I, too, have been troubled by Obama's appropriation of MLK to create his media personality.
As As’ad AbuKhalil argues (Angry Arab), and I agree, Obama can be read as a representative of the White Man, in a similar fashion as Margaret Thatcher was representative of the White Man, and, I would add, Condaleeza Rice. Gender and race are performative, and Obama can play white man, just like Maggie Thatcher and Condie played white man; skin colour and gender are not definitive. I am troubled by the CONSTRUCTION of Obama as “the hero” who will be a kind benevolent face of US imperialism. When he begins dismantling the US military industrial complex and really seeks democracy in the ME and rids himself of his racism towards Palestinians and Arabs, then I may see him differently. Obama’s conservatism, heterosexuality, Christianity, neo-liberalism, and belief in militarism place him clearly in the ideology of the White Man.
In this context, as representative of neoliberal, war-merchant, war mongering Man, I find troubling Obama's use of Martin Luther King to construct his own personality and to get himself into power. MLK became increasingly radicalized towards the end of his life and was a staunch vocal opponent of war and American warmongering. Some have written that MLK died because he was no longer just “sticking to the Negro issue” but was getting dangerous in his anti-war discourse. Interesting to me is why Obama didn’t pick Malcolm X to ride on his coattails into office. Of course not. He chose ASPECTS of MLK that reduce this anti-war man to a Christian conservative just wanting “balance” between African Americans and white America.
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