Note: This is an older post from my Blogger days. Since the halycon days of the Bush Jr. there have been more figures that have joined the list of class collaborators and race traitors that Powell and Rice are already on. The top spot on this list now goes to one Barack Hussein Obama. He not only managed to betray the hopes of African-Americans, who had a big hand in getting him in office, but through his bail-out of the banks and the signature bill that established Obamacare greatly eroded the fortunes of the larger working class whom he had promised so much. “Hope and change” were made four letter words by Obama’s cynicism and mendacity. When people think of Trump, they should not forget Obama’s huge role in getting him into office. His policies massively widened the wealth gap and left the 99% grasping at straws. The perfect opening for a demagogue and political charlatan like Donald J Trump. It may be a while before anyone from the Black or Latino community rises, or should I say descends, to knock Obama out of the top spot on the list of betrayers to genuine progress.
From B. J Sabri’s “The Splendid Failure of Occupation” (appearing at Online Journal):
As an opportunist Zionist and violent imperialist craving to subjugate the Iraqis to his monovision of the world, Powell did not learn anything significant about the struggle against slavery, colonialism, and imperialism. Continue reading