You are here

Home

Rocky Anderson's Response to Tom Hayden

Sat, 09/15/2012 - 14:17 — Dave Culver
Section(s): 
Home Page
Government & Politics

  • Paul Loeb recommended Tom Hayden's latest pro-Obama article (Saving Obama, Saving Ourselves) to Rocky Anderson. Rocky wrote this response.
  • What Obama Has Wrought
  • Betrayal and the Insidious Dumbing Down of Black America

Rocky Anderson, VoteRocky.org

Thanks to Evergreene Digest reader Alan Maki for this contribution.

Dear Paul,

(September 14, 2012) I read Tom Hayden's piece several days ago and think it is so beneath him -- particularly the "white liberal-left" and "white blindness" racist condescensions.  There are, of course, many in the Black community who are justifiably appalled at Obama's performance (or lack thereof). 

See: What Obama Has Wrought and Betrayal and the Insidious Dumbing Down of Black America. 

If Hayden wants to make this about race, perhaps he should focus on the fact that, after four years of Obama, far more Blacks are living in poverty and four times as many Black women in the U.S. are dying in connection with pregnancy and childbirth than White women.

Hayden never would have written such an apologist piece for an imperial militarist and corporatist regime in the '60s or '70s.  Can you imagine such a piece by him then, gushingly endorsing Nixon because of his overtures to China, his signing of the Clean Air Act, and his establishment of the EPA?

Full story...

Related:

This is the piece written by Tom Hayden to which Rocky Anderson has responded -- Saving Obama, Saving Ourselves. (Note: This was obtained from peace activist David Swanson's web site, WarIsACrime.org.)

What Obama Has Wrought, Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report
The Obama’s are a global capital-loving couple, two cynical lawyers on hire to the wealthiest and the ghastliest.

Betrayal and the Insidious Dumbing Down of Black America, Larry Pinkney, Black Commentator
The black intelligensia knows full well that the current political skirmishes between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are nothing more than a well-perpetuated, systemic farce.
 

Fair Use Notice

This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.