A Remarkable Blow to White Male Supremacy in the Oval Office

With a woman on the Republican ticket and a person of color as Presidential candidate for the Democrats the old order of United States national politics is remarkably transformed. Women and nonwhites are competing with white men for the highest national office. It doesn't sound like much in the abstract but after more than two hundred years only white men have occupied the oval office or its equivalent.

Of course ethnic or sexual identity does not equal political identity. Obama seems progressive in some ways but not in others. The governor of Alaska remains a mystery to me but for the purposes of this article we can say that it is almost certain that either we will have a female Vice President or a Black President.

Women are a lot different today than they were in generations past. They have really taken the lead in many new sexually segregated areas of work and social endeavor. Obviously women are superseding men in broad areas of educational achievement. Many persons of color and women have a long struggle to achieve equity in other spheres of society such as politics and business. The white working class has the same challenge.
Of course a better integration of women and blacks into the upper echelons of the Executive cannot solve the problems of the multicultural and multinational worldwide working class.

Unfortunately all the actors in this play seem to play the same imperialist fiddle the white male Presidents have played. It would be the biggest surprise to find out otherwise.

It seems the Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, is not a crook which is quite a quality for a politician and a Republican to boot. Imagine, a Republican that isn't a crook !

I always thought that being the mother of children was an important qualifier for the White House. Sarah Palin is a mother of five. She is ready to lead.

As for John McCain we need to know, "How many diapers have you changed?" Think of it as a No President Left Behind evaluation question.

Praise be to all the gods that Senator Joe Lieberman was not chosen as VP. We need to have the Zionist bit loosened here in the United States, not the other way around. Those extremists who want military confrontations with just about every nation on earth have a very bad idea for their own security as well as everyone else's.

Diplomacy. What ever happened to diplomacy and mutual respect among nations?

PROSPECTS FOR WORLD REVOLUTION

I have read that there is a significant insurgency in India. About a third of the nation is said to be in the hands of insurgents. Is this true?

What about China? How stable will the CPC version of capitalism be if there is mass starvation in the countryside? What if the Olympics occur during the meltdown of the Asian capitalist societies?

Capitalism enhances economic production and this is energy intensive producing short term profits at the long term expense of our Earth's living and nonliving resources. The fossil fuels are causing the global warming which is really threatening human survival. The strip mining of the entire earth is obviously a terrible crime that must end, and end soon.

Capitalism works for short term gain but it doesn't work to preserve a healthy culture or a healthy world to live in. We need to change our ways and our economic thinking or we will soon be extinct.

If your country will be under water in a few years you should probably be a revolutionary or a fish. Then there is that crock pot future thing. Revolution or people pot roast!

What about conspiracy theories?

Rather than lay out an entire spiel on conspiracy theories I'll just reveal my bias that they most theories are precisely the sort of speculation that doesn't hold up to scrutiny. Does that mean that there are no conspiracies? Obviously not. There have been conspiracies since before recorded history. Someone or some people pulled off some event of importance and it was attributed to others or other causes.

BUDDHIST MONKS AND CIVILIANS UNITE TO OPPOSE MILITARY DICTATORSHIP

The situation in Myanmar or Burma is at once awe inspiring and powerful. Tens of thousands of monks and others have united to challenge an oppressive military dictatorship. It is a great nonviolent struggle at this point. Today monks were reportedly killed and another person, six in all.

I wonder how the monks came to this point? How long did they plan and was there some event that triggered their street protests?

I don't know what efforts may have been made in the past to control the monks. It looks like this religious superstructure, a sort of pagoda system and of course the monk organizations is the basis for the leadership in this situation.

Interestingly the street demonstrations were of significant size from the outset.

The military does seem to be unable or unwilling to take any action which could prevent the movement from at least developing some social momentum.

Perhaps there are some who will place their lives on the line for peace and justice just as there have been far too many who sacrifice for war and inequity.

Of course there are some and there are many who have struggled for justice. Most were not devoted to war. Few wanted inequity. I think of the Palestinean intifada which was noviolent, in terms of harming people, until many Palestineans were murdered by the Israeli settlers and armed forces.

WITHOUT REVOLUTIONARY ACTION THERE CAN BE NO REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT

Jena suggests that action precedes any substantial hope. I have heard so many expressions of hope and eagerness to do something about the kind of so-called law enforcement/judicial system that currently imprisons the majority of African American young men. The struggle against white supremacy and the white supremacist law enforcement/judicial system is beginning and I even heard calls for a revolution, a civil rights revolution from the activists at Jena. Jena is a spark, a spark that could ignite further just struggle.

The march in Jena had a greater impact with a few thousand or tens of thousands of marchers than all the marches in Washington in the past decade. Now some of the civil rights workers want to march to Washington again. It might be a good idea but it seems to me that Washington, the f....ing government is almost totally insulated from and unresponsive to any of the marches that take place in Washington D. C.. The small ruling elite in Jena has no cordons of defense either physical and ideological. Consequently we may see some results in Jena. We may see some results in Louisiana, with one of the saddest cases of racist cracker culture in the nation.

Free Michael Bell and our black youth!

Free the Jena Six! Liberate Jena!

Expose and overthrow racist prosecutors!

Struggle Against White Supremacy from the White House to Your House!

Build a Revoutionary Movement Against White Supremacy at Home and Abroad!

When was the last time a march in D. C. resulted in a positive result? When did the Congress
or President listen? I really want some answers here.