Watching our millionaire president hobnobbing with celebrities at his luxurious vacation in Martha’s Vineyard as Ferguson, Missouri convulses in rioting after a cop shot unarmed Michael Brown, it’s obvious that electing a black president isn’t enough to change reality for millions of less privileged blacks. The only thing that separates Michael Brown from Barack Obama is a thin veneer of borrowed privilege.
Changing the Man in Charge Doesn’t Change the System
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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I’d say that Cornel Ronald West has Mr Obama pretty well pegged : http://www.salon.com/2014/08/24/cornel_west_he_posed_as_a_progressive_and_turned_out_to_be_counterfeit_we_ended_up_with_a_wall_street_presidency_a_drone_presidency/. But presumably he, like the Clintons, will, post-US presidency, be able to rake in enough dough on the so-called «speaking circuit», so as to maintain that «thin veneer of borrowed privilege»….
Henri
Agreed. I fear his replacement more, I must say.
In the event Ms Clinton becomes that replacement, I fear your fears are justified….
Henri