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missed this story when it was published in January. Unlike the romanticized picture Barack Obama has drawn of his Kenyan father, the elder Obama was a drunk and a bigamist. Interesting.

(As a former drunk myself, I’m well aware that any book or investigative article written about me will include that sorry chapter of my life.)

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Originally posted by negrospiritual:
She is a black republican "commentator/blogger". need i say more?

Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long baking process of history... Michel Foucault

Hope begets many children illegitimately and prematurely. Allie M. Frazier

Beware the terrible simplifiers... Jacob Burckhardt

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Originally posted by Kweli4Real:
Barber is no different from many reformed X'ers. be they reformed drunks, reformed smokers, or whatever. Studies show [I'll post a link if requested, where the "reformed" tend towards fundamentalism, i.e., conservatism, in which everything is seen as black or white, right or wrong. This simplifies and allows them to make sense out of their world. Even if the "sense", doesn't make any to the rest of the world.

Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long baking process of history... Michel Foucault

Hope begets many children illegitimately and prematurely. Allie M. Frazier

Beware the terrible simplifiers... Jacob Burckhardt

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Originally posted by kresge:

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Originally posted by negrospiritual:
She is a black republican "commentator/blogger". need i say more?

Actually, she maintains that she is not a Republican, but rather an "independent conservative" commentator/blogger.

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Originally posted by kresge:

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Originally posted by Kweli4Real:
Barber is no different from many reformed X'ers. be they reformed drunks, reformed smokers, or whatever. Studies show [I'll post a link if requested, where the "reformed" tend towards fundamentalism, i.e., conservatism, in which everything is seen as black or white, right or wrong. This simplifies and allows them to make sense out of their world. Even if the "sense", doesn't make any to the rest of the world.

IMO, reformed or converts tend toward fundamentalism, but they can be conservative or liberal. There are fundamentalist Marxist just like there are fundamentalist Christians.

Egungun, Egungun ni t'aiye ati jo!
Ancestos, Ancestors come to earth and dance!

"I'm sick of the war and the civilization that created it. Let's look to our dreams, and the magical; to the creations of the so-called primitive peoples for new inspirations."
- Jaques Vache and Andre Breton

"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone."
-John Maynard

"You know that in our country there were even matriarchal societies where women were the most important element. On the Bijagos islands they had queens. They were not queens because they were the daughters of kings. They had queens succeeding queens. The religious leaders were women too..."
-- Amilcar Cabral, Return to the Source, 1973

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IMO, reformed or converts tend toward fundamentalism, but they can be conservative or liberal. There are fundamentalist Marxist just like there are fundamentalist Christians.