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The Judas Factor: Barack Obama and a Movement Betrayed (or ‘for Those Who Have Joined the Empire’) – Keeping It Real

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

These Black, Brown, and Red people are my people, along with all people of good will, and I will not abandon them no matter how the system tries to play us off against each other. You are MY people and I am proud of you ALL – Black, Red, Brown, Yellow, and yes, White. You…

April 10, 2008 1 min read Free to read

These Black, Brown, and Red people are my people, along with all people of good will, and I will not abandon them no matter how the system tries to play us off against each other. You are MY people and I am proud of you ALL – Black, Red, Brown, Yellow, and yes, White. You are MY PEOPLE. Many of us do not know that we ARE ONE, precisely because this filthy, hypocritical, cynically racist, capitalist system, keeps putting political, mental and / or physical obstacles in our path all in the very name of some fake “one America” nonsense. We are many distinct peoples, and proud of it as well we should be!

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