02-01-2011, 01:02 AM
Jan, the title stands, for the following reasons, though you are surely free to file an appeal with the management of DPF:
1) That's the title on the piece at Global Research where I found it;
2) If the author had second thoughts about how it was titled, he could have communicated that much to the editors and webmaster there;
3) While I appreciate what you say about the history, to which Obama was not party, Obama did have some ability to temper or set the tone for any US or international response to the earthquake and its aftermath and, as I recall, was commander-in-chief when the US military effectively blockaded the island from other response and chose as his primary "ambassador" both Presidents Clinton and Bush, the living past representatives of that history, one of whom wiped his hand on the other's shirt after shaking hands with the resident he was talking to; and
4) Obama was seen throughout the US and the world as a signal of hope and change in attitude toward the black (and colored and indigenous) peoples of the world by virtue of being one of them (or at least looking and sounding like one of them). Whether he or anyone else likes it or not, he is a symbol of the US. Whether he or anyone else recognizes it or not, if we are to believe John Pilger and Wayne Madsen, he was on the fringe as a potential oppressor-in-training, Arguably, he is doing the same things to brown-skinned peoples with his squads in 75 countries.
Perhaps the people of Haiti (for whom this fellow writes) feel some worldly kinship with the Pashtun, the Pakistanis, the folks from Africa, and Colombia, and ...
1) That's the title on the piece at Global Research where I found it;
2) If the author had second thoughts about how it was titled, he could have communicated that much to the editors and webmaster there;
3) While I appreciate what you say about the history, to which Obama was not party, Obama did have some ability to temper or set the tone for any US or international response to the earthquake and its aftermath and, as I recall, was commander-in-chief when the US military effectively blockaded the island from other response and chose as his primary "ambassador" both Presidents Clinton and Bush, the living past representatives of that history, one of whom wiped his hand on the other's shirt after shaking hands with the resident he was talking to; and
4) Obama was seen throughout the US and the world as a signal of hope and change in attitude toward the black (and colored and indigenous) peoples of the world by virtue of being one of them (or at least looking and sounding like one of them). Whether he or anyone else likes it or not, he is a symbol of the US. Whether he or anyone else recognizes it or not, if we are to believe John Pilger and Wayne Madsen, he was on the fringe as a potential oppressor-in-training, Arguably, he is doing the same things to brown-skinned peoples with his squads in 75 countries.
Perhaps the people of Haiti (for whom this fellow writes) feel some worldly kinship with the Pashtun, the Pakistanis, the folks from Africa, and Colombia, and ...
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"