January 28, 2009 A quote from Ernest

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I spoke at UT before the black faculty and staff for MLK birthday celebration, 1/15. The hardest task for me was to try and salute, honor and uplift the role of the individual while trying to downplay the Obama factor. The biggest danger I see is for people to fall asleep at the wheel, to give him the Moses/Messiah role…I’m not worried about the “dream factor” on our youth, as for inspiring their own self confidences more than ever. Barak is the chief executive of an empire, one with over 700 military bases world wide, spending over a trillion dollars a year on weaponry (more than all the other nations of the world combined!), handing out 1 billion dollars a day to Israel alone, and engaged in two wars at once. We need a people’s movement here more now than ever, but I’m afraid we’ll be watching it on our tv’s rather than out in the streets making it happen. Someone said that for LBJ (in 1964) had his MLK and the people’s movement to pressure him and force him to do the right things; now (post election) it’s just Barak and an audience. In Ghana (1966?) the cia paid a few generals a few million dollars to overthrow the democratically elected Nkrumah (the first independent sub Saharan Black republic in modern history!) The people boarded their homes, hid under their beds while only the 300 palace guards resisted. WE do need all hands on deck.
I’m turning in for now….

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