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Thread #110539   Message #2321112
Posted By: Bobert
20-Apr-08 - 08:42 PM
Thread Name: BS: Obama Brushes Dirt Off His Shoulders
Subject: RE: BS: Obama Brushes Dirt Off His Shoulders
Well, well, well (from the late R, L. Burnside, btw...Oh. how I hate givin' up my secrets...lol...)

In a way I am very much a folklorist of black history... Anyone who has seen me perform knows that because I talk alot about black history as I perform country blues... Almost all of my music was written a long time ago... My heros were black men tryin' to carve out little niche for themselves playing in juke joints and maybe be recorded by the local furniture builder (the first record makers, btw) or by Alan Lomax in the various penetenuries thru out the South...I have spent alot of time trying to learn as much as I can about the erra when my heros lives and I've spent alot of time on it...

But forget self-testimonials...

What this comes down to isn't whether Obama learned to shake the dust from a preacher or a hip hopper even tho I'd bet that the hip hopper learned it from his parents or grandparents... What matters is that it is a ********non issue********!!! Period...........

That's right.... It doesn't mean a rats ass to 45M people without health insurance... It doesn't mean rat's ass to the drastic redestrubution of wealth in America toward the wealthy, or tax codes that the corportists have had put in place to protect them....

The problem I have with Fantz is that she would rather keep distratcions front and center when it come to Obama... She claims to be an equal opportunity cnadidate hater but puts about 99% into hatin' Obama... Somehting wrong here that don't take the Wes Ginny Slide Rule to figure out...

B~