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a Random Rant

This is a rant that is featured with Bob Parks on Black & Right of NMATV

Obama Bombshell Redistribution of Wealth Audio Uncovered

"Barrack Obama: "If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and it's litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to vest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples so that I would now have the right to vote, I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order and as long as I could pay for it I'd be ok."

"But the supreme court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society. And to that extent I think as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution, at least as its been interpreted. And Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution as a charter of negative liberties says what the State's can't do to you, says what the Federal government can't to you to you."

"But it doesn't say what the Federal government or the State government must do on your behalf. And that hasn't shifted. And one of the I think tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court focused I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing activities on the ground that are able to put the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change, and in some ways we still suffer from that."

The original show is from the January 18, 2001 Chicago Public Radio show Odyssey. Their audio archive is here:http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/audio_library/od_rajan01.asp

The audio is here:http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/audio_library/ram/od/od-010118.ram

Redistribution of Wealth Experiment

An email circulating around the net:

In a local restaurant my server had on a “Obama 08″ tie, again I laughed as he had given away his political preference–just imagine the coincidence.

When the bill came I decided not to tip the server and explained to him that I was exploring the Obama redistribution of wealth concept. He stood there in disbelief while I told him that I was going to redistribute his tip to someone who I deemed more in need–the homeless guy outside. The server angrily stormed from my sight.

I went outside, gave the homeless guy $10 and told him to thank the server inside as I’ve decided he could use the money more. The homeless guy was grateful.

At the end of my rather unscientific redistribution experiment I realized the homeless guy was grateful for the money he did not earn, but the waiter was pretty angry that I gave away the money he did earn even though the actual recipient deserved money more.

I guess redistribution of wealth is an easier thing to swallow in concept than in practical application.

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