On July 16, 2009, President Barack Obama, America’s first African-American president, spoke to the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). As an active, card-carrying member of this organization, I felt a need to write about Obama’s speech after I read it. He says some good things but, as a whole, I was not impressed. I felt his speech showed a need for a redefinition of the struggle that black people are fighting, which will be the topic of this piece. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Adam Hudson on July 22, 2009 in Activism & Social Change, African/African-American history/politics/issues, Anarchism, Capitalism, Human Rights, Race/Racism, Radical/Revolutionary Ideas, Socialism
Tags: anti-capitalism, black, naacp, radicalism, revolution, struggle
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