Obama and Hillary: Steeped in the Rhetoric of Oppression

Posted by zee on Feb 18th, 2008 in Uncategorized | 1 comment I never signed up for a course in the “-isms“; Marxism, Socialism and Communism – but researching the ideological underpinnings of the two progressive contenders for the presidency is teaching me more than I ever wanted to know. I will frankly say that I will not vote for any black presidential candidate who chooses to designate himself as an African-American (as opposed to an American). In my mind that hyphen has come to symbolize race card politics, signaling an agenda of divisive grievances, not national unity. And quite frankly, I could never bring myself to vote for a...