Michigan Votes Today

I had hoped to finish out my life without writing words like: "It is not enough to stop killing black kids and throwing them in jail."  But the economic and social repression of black Americans, the intentional destruction of black America that began in earnest with Ronald Reagan, continues to this day, in spite of the eight-year presidency of a bi-racial American who identifies as black.  If it is true that on every important economic measure black Americans are worse off now than when Barack Obama took office in 2008, are we to believe that it's because he doesn't care about black people?  Or is the simpler, more compelling truth that the forces of repression are so entrenched in the political establishment at every level that only a political revolution can improve the lives of all working Americans, including black Americans?

We have free public elementary schools and high schools that have been theoretically and legally desegregated since 1954.  Segregated housing is also against the law.  And yet, I sit on the white side of a river and directly across from me, on the black side of the river, there is a high school from which only a few graduates went on to college last year.  The lead in the water my family drinks is only 2 ppb, while the lead in the drinking water of the families on the black side of the river is 12 ppb. Unemployment on my side of the river is low, unemployment on the other side of the river is devastatingly high.  Is the quality of life on the other side of the river so low because the people there are black?  No.  It's because they are poor.

So far, support for Bernie Sanders in the black community has been very low. If that doesn't change, we will be looking at a continuation of the Obama presidency or something far worse. 

The Zombiefication Of Hillary Clinton

I think it started even before her involvement with Goldwater.  Things stick in your subconscious when you're a kid.  There is a big difference between a childhood that turns you into a Goldwater fan and a childhood that makes you a fan of Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society.

And then there was her experience as First Lady of Arkansas, not exactly a Progressive state.  Not even a liberal one for that matter.

As First Lady of the U.S., she took on the American Health Insurance industry.  Maybe that defeat turned her into a "pragmatist," meaning that she learned to settle for what corporate America would let her have, and developed a "fuck you I've got mine, Jack" attitude to go along with her pragmatism.  Bill's impeachment had to have made an impression.

After Kennedy, Kerry and Daschle stabbed her in the back, she compromised with Obama in 2008, giving up her campaign before the Democratic convention in return for the Secretary of State job and a place at the head of the line of candidates for the Democratic nomination in 2016.  Had to be a bitter pill to swallow.

Here's how they make a zombie.  Drug them and bury them.  Dig them up, beat them and give them their zombie name.  Put them to work in the fields.