tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905181885778117365.post6382628966355528759..comments2023-09-30T09:41:52.224-07:00Comments on The Well Spoken Negro's Salon: "Soldier" On Erykah!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905181885778117365.post-80575865955587588412009-05-04T12:39:00.000-07:002009-05-04T12:39:00.000-07:00"Never go up against a Sicilian when death is invo..."Never go up against a Sicilian when death is involved! HAHAHAHA! HAHAHAH...thump!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905181885778117365.post-30547287494136370242009-04-25T12:01:00.000-07:002009-04-25T12:01:00.000-07:00I'm interested in your highlighting the phrase "Am...I'm interested in your highlighting the phrase "American black". Are you offering that as a counterpoint to "Black American"? <br /><br />Is the former meant to emphasize the diasporic connection to "black" as opposed to the national connection to "American"?Margot Lee Shetterlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15572954164722401186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905181885778117365.post-56914308220580489162009-04-25T10:47:00.000-07:002009-04-25T10:47:00.000-07:00Free, I'm not so confident that "the truth will ou...Free, I'm not so confident that "the truth will out."<br /><br />During the "Summit of the Americas" last week Daniel Ortega gave an angry speech detailing parts of the history between North and South America. <br /><br />Later I heard Pat Buchanan talking about how "disgusting and humiliating" it was that President Obama "sat there grinning" while Daniel Ortega gave an "anti-American rant."<br /><br />"President Obama didn't even rebut a single word of the lies Ortega was spreading!" Buchanan screeched.<br /><br />I Googled around a bit until I found a transcript of what Ortega had said. His rhetoric was at times inflammatory ("terrorism from North America") but here's the problem I have for Mr. Buchanan. What I want Pat to do is to go through Ortega's speech and find any <I>factual errors</I> in what he said. Find what exactly he expected President Obama to "rebut."<br /><br />I've studied a bit of the history of US relations with Latin America and from my reading of it, inflammatory tone or not, what Daniel Ortega said in his speech was entirely, <I>factually</I>--TRUE. <br /><br />Free, I do believe that the <I>facts</I> will out come on torture. We already have a lot of them. But I'm not so sure that some of our friends on the right will ever see the <I>truth</I>. Chris Hayes of The Nation put it pretty well. He said (I'm paraphrasing)-- "For a lot of Americans on the right, the United States can do no wrong. America is <I>definitionally pure.</I> Is waterboarding torture? No, if the United States did it, it <I>cannot be</I> torture because if WE did it...well, it's not torture. We don't do that."<br /><br />And as for Mr. Ortega, well when a large country goes into a region of the world and over the course of a century or so violently overthrows governments there, then installs and props up vicious dictators willing to do the bidding of that large country, that is obviously imperialism, right?<br /><br />Unless of course the United States is the large country that did those things to those small countries. Then it can't possibly be imperialism because...um...we don't do that.Scottnoreply@blogger.com