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Alice Walker: The 'Good Medicine' of Obama's Victory

Posted by Staff, Al Jazeera at 11:29 AM on November 6, 2008.


How Obama represents a shift in attitudes on race and gender in America.

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Al Jazeera's Riz Khan talks to Alice Walker, the Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Color Purple and an activist on gender and race issues, in this web exclusive.

Read more of Walker's thoughts on this election from earlier this year on AlterNet.


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Obama supporters HATE Gays and Lesbians with their votes
Posted by: George DeCarlo on Nov 7, 2008 5:51 AM   
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It seems Barry and Alice never read MLK and approve of Gays and Lesbians being given morsels; or as in the case of CA, approve of Obama voters casting ballots of hate against Gays and Lesbians.

Speech at the Great March on Detroit
23 June 1963
Detroit, Mich

"Then there is another cry. They say, "Why don’t you do it in a gradual manner?" Well, gradualism is little more than escapism and do-nothingism, which ends up in stand-stillism."...

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End heterosexual oppression of Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals - support full equal rights!

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Hillary Proved to be a 'Good Ol' Boy' In Drag
Posted by: Purple Girl on Nov 7, 2008 7:55 AM   
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Any woman who has actually had to fight for equality immeidately recognized Hillary's betrayal and Scam.
FYI Women are the bearers of Diversity. Our children are Male/Female, of various colors and philosophical ideologies.
Hillary attempted to par out the Womens Movwement from the equal Rights movement- which indicated she had no concept of the fact Women are (and ahve always been) the heart & Soul of the Equality movement.Actually knowing she is not a stupid woman lends more credence to the fact she attempted to do so Intentionally to break up the enormity of such a movement. TellTale to her ambition and arrognace.
Hillary not only had those who had hated her in the '90's, but those she had created during her disgraceful campaign. Both Clintons can Now get the Hell out of Plitics along with their Cohorts the Neo Cons (Bush, Cheney, McCain).
Good Bye & Good Riddance (except when your cases of High crimes finally come to the top of the NEW agenda- Fuckin' Treasonous Bastards!)

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OK, so ON topic...
Posted by: DaBear on Nov 7, 2008 10:12 AM   
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Speaking with non-melanin deficient friends at the demos last night in west LA, I got a much bigger picture of historicity of Obama's win. Sure, I appreciated it historically and academically, my emotions were with sister Cynthia McKinney so it was hard for me to feel too gushy. But for my four friends who were with me and my kids last night, it meant everything to them. It meant odds were beatable for them. That's no small thing in the context of four centuries of the suck. It was no less than Israel in 1948 felt for my own people. That's really friggin' significant. I only hope Obama can live up to that under the circumstances... my own people had really jaded feelings about 1948 now after what our own RWA have done to the promise and hope for change.

As to the feminine... I hope a lot more men figure out how to drop the machismo shit and get savvy with their nurturant and cooperative sides. I hang with a lot of owning class guys in mythopoetic groups and they're figuring it out too, but very very slowly. Essentialism is a tough habit to break (if it ever should be really broken from in the first place... a balanced view is probably wiser). Mostly I think it's the owning class thing that's holding most men back. The working class machismo comes from resistance to owning class oppression. Break that chain, men will soften. I've watched that happen.

We all have a butt load more work to do on every level.

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» RE: OK, so ON topic... Posted by: luzmejor