BlackAsCoal - Socialist on board

[BlackAsCoal]

I'm a democratic socialist living in Atlanta, and although I'm new to this board, I know several posters here who I've met over the years.

I'm an Oracle DBA and freelance writer, but I've also spent some time working for the US Congress as a Press Secretary.

I've spent much of my adult life involved in politics and grassroots activism .. and I was heavily involved in the fight against the fraud of electronic voting .. which we proved to be a fraud.

Oh yeah .. and I died last year .. saved by my dog.

I think I'm going to like it here.

 

[Diuretic]

I never knew about your dog. But again welcome BAC - yes you will enjoy it here, it may get a bit willing at time but it lacks the sophisticated spite of some other forums. here we just get into it and have a good old time!

 

[jillian]

I'm a democratic socialist living in Atlanta, and although I'm new to this board, I know several posters here who I've met over the years.

I'm an Oracle DBA and freelance writer, but I've also spent some time working for the US Congress as a Press Secretary.

I've spent much of my adult life involved in politics and grassroots activism .. and I was heavily involved in the fight against the fraud of electronic voting .. which we proved to be a fraud.

Oh yeah .. and I died last year .. saved by my dog.

I think I'm going to like it here.

Hi BAC. Welcome aboard. I believe you know me from another board as Backstreetgirl. Nice to see you here.

 

[BlackAsCoal]

I never knew about your dog. But again welcome BAC - yes you will enjoy it here, it may get a bit willing at time but it lacks the sophisticated spite of some other forums. here we just get into it and have a good old time!

Glad you're here my brother.

Thank you

 

[BlackAsCoal]

Hi BAC. Welcome aboard. I believe you know me from another board as Backstreetgirl. Nice to see you here.

I do indeed remeber Backstreetgirl.

This is starting to feel like home.

Thank you sister.

 

[jillian]

I do indeed remeber Backstreetgirl.

This is starting to feel like home.

Thank you sister.

Glad you're making yourself comfortable. I look forward to seeing you jump into the fray.

 

[sealybobo]

I'm a democratic socialist living in Atlanta, and although I'm new to this board, I know several posters here who I've met over the years.

I'm an Oracle DBA and freelance writer, but I've also spent some time working for the US Congress as a Press Secretary.

I've spent much of my adult life involved in politics and grassroots activism .. and I was heavily involved in the fight against the fraud of electronic voting .. which we proved to be a fraud.

Oh yeah .. and I died last year .. saved by my dog.

I think I'm going to like it here.

Welcome!!! I think you are going to be great for these boards. But don't expect Republicans/Conservatives to get what you are saying. Just the fact that you said you were a socialist means they will refuse to comprehend a word you type out. They'll just hear bla bla socialism, bla bla socialism.

Hey, isn't that scumbag Bob Barr from Atlanta? What do people say about him in Atlanta?

 

[xsited1]

Welcome! So I'm guessing you're a Cynthia McKinney supporter?

 

[BlackAsCoal]

Welcome!!! I think you are going to be great for these boards. But don't expect Republicans/Conservatives to get what you are saying. Just the fact that you said you were a socialist means they will refuse to comprehend a word you type out. They'll just hear bla bla socialism, bla bla socialism.

Hey, isn't that scumbag Bob Barr from Atlanta? What do people say about him in Atlanta?

Thank you

I have no problem with posters who have a problem with socialism. I have no problem defending my beliefs or my perspectives. In fact, I announce what I believe as bait ..

Barr is from Georgia and the McCainiacs are worried that he will swing just enough votes away from McCain to swing the state to Obama .. which is possible because Georgia has a large black population.

However, Cynthia McKinney is also from Georgia and she's running as the Green Party candidate. She could attract just enough votes away from Obama to nueter the Barr effect and swing the state back to McCain.

 

[BlackAsCoal]

Welcome! So I'm guessing you're a Cynthia McKinney supporter?

Thank you, and you would be correct.

I know Cynthia very well.

 

[xsited1]

Thank you, and you would be correct.

I know Cynthia very well.

That's great! I might even cast my vote for her this year since the Libertarians have a Republican running for them. Go figure.

 

[sealybobo]

Thank you

I have no problem with posters who have a problem with socialism. I have no problem defending my beliefs or my perspectives. In fact, I announce what I believe as bait ..

Barr is from Georgia and the McCainiacs are worried that he will swing just enough votes away from McCain to swing the state to Obama .. which is possible because Georgia has a large black population.

However, Cynthia McKinney is also from Georgia and she's running as the Green Party candidate. She could attract just enough votes away from Obama to nueter the Barr effect and swing the state back to McCain.

God that would be great if Barr helped turn Atlanta blue. A lot of our Detroiters moved to Atlanta for better/more opportunities. I hear it is the place a lot of young black people are moving to after college because there is a lot of opportunity there.

PS. I'm a big Thom Hartmann fan. I think of this op ed piece anytime I hear Republicans say the government is not the solution, it's the problem:

In a May 25, 2001 interview, Grover Norquist told National Public Radio's Mara Liasson, "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."

Norquist got his wish. Democracy - and at least several thousand people, most of them Democrats, black, and poor - drowned last week in the basin of New Orleans. Our nation failed in its response, because for most of the past 25 years conservatives who don't believe in governance have run our government.

As incompetent as George W. Bush has been in his response to the disaster in New Orleans, he wasn't the one who began the process that inevitably led to that disaster spiraling out of control.

That would be Ronald Reagan.

It was Reagan who began the deliberate and intentional destruction of the United States of America when he famously cracked (and then incessantly repeated): "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"

Reagan, like George W. Bush after him, failed to understand that when people come together into community, and then into nationhood, that they organize themselves to protect themselves from predators, both human and corporate, both domestic and foreign. This form of organization is called government.

But the Reagan/Bush ideologues don't "believe" in government, in anything other than a military and police capacity. Government should punish, they agree, but it should never nurture, protect, or defend individuals. Nurturing and protecting, they suggest, is the more appropriate role of religious institutions, private charities, families, and - perhaps most important - corporations.

Let the corporations handle your old-age pension. Let the corporations decide how much protection we and our environment need from their toxics. Let the corporations decide what we're paid. Let the corporations decide what doctor we can see, when, and for what purpose.

ThomHartmann.com - "You Can't Govern if You Don't Believe in Government"

 

[BlackAsCoal]

God that would be great if Barr helped turn Atlanta blue. A lot of our Detroiters moved to Atlanta for better/more opportunities. I hear it is the place a lot of young black people are moving to after college because there is a lot of opportunity there.

PS. I'm a big Thom Hartmann fan. I think of this op ed piece anytime I hear Republicans say the government is not the solution, it's the problem:

In a May 25, 2001 interview, Grover Norquist told National Public Radio's Mara Liasson, "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."

Norquist got his wish. Democracy - and at least several thousand people, most of them Democrats, black, and poor - drowned last week in the basin of New Orleans. Our nation failed in its response, because for most of the past 25 years conservatives who don't believe in governance have run our government.

As incompetent as George W. Bush has been in his response to the disaster in New Orleans, he wasn't the one who began the process that inevitably led to that disaster spiraling out of control.

That would be Ronald Reagan.

It was Reagan who began the deliberate and intentional destruction of the United States of America when he famously cracked (and then incessantly repeated): "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"

Reagan, like George W. Bush after him, failed to understand that when people come together into community, and then into nationhood, that they organize themselves to protect themselves from predators, both human and corporate, both domestic and foreign. This form of organization is called government.

But the Reagan/Bush ideologues don't "believe" in government, in anything other than a military and police capacity. Government should punish, they agree, but it should never nurture, protect, or defend individuals. Nurturing and protecting, they suggest, is the more appropriate role of religious institutions, private charities, families, and - perhaps most important - corporations.

Let the corporations handle your old-age pension. Let the corporations decide how much protection we and our environment need from their toxics. Let the corporations decide what we're paid. Let the corporations decide what doctor we can see, when, and for what purpose.

ThomHartmann.com - "You Can't Govern if You Don't Believe in Government"

I just noticed that you're from Michigan .. I was born and raised in Detroit. We moved to Atlanta about 9 years ago, but came from Minneapolis where we spent about a year. I also lived on the west coast for about 14 years total in LA, Seattle, and San Diego. Getting out and living and seeing the rest of the country was always one of my goals .. just ended up in Atlanta.

Don't be fooled by the "Black Mecca" appeal of Atlanta. This is still Georgia my brother .. and black Georgians are ... uhhh .. err .. docile about their politics .. and black politics as is black economics, stuck somewhere between incredibly immature and amazingly dumb. Given that we have only beeen revlatively free in America for 43 years .. out of almost 400 years, the immaturity is sometimes understandable .. although no less frustrating.

I agree with you about Reagan who also walked into office union-busting.

I like Hartmann .. read a lot of his stuff.

 

[BlackAsCoal]

That's great! I might even cast my vote for her this year since the Libertarians have a Republican running for them. Go figure.

Cynthia is a great thinker and she has the courage to speak truth to power. Remember she was the first politician in America to challange Bush on Iraq and many democrats, including Zrll Miller called her a "loony" for it.

Unfortunately libertarians are all over the board and there are even pro-war libertarians who believe in LIBERVENTION

 

[editec]

Know that the battle for the American soul rages here, just as it does on most boards like these.

Yes the anti-democratic government types, the libertopians and their close allies the pro-religious social fascists talk their talking point here just like they've been taught to by the brilliant propagandists on fascist TV and talk radio.

Their faith was shaken when they waw the REAL GOVERNMENT scrambling to prevent the economy from totally melting down, but once again, now that the central banks have saved the fascist monied interests asses, they're mostly sanguine with the solution and are already talkigb about how clever they are in picking stocks for their retirements.

Same old shit, different board.

Welcome.

 

[sealybobo]

I just noticed that you're from Michigan .. I was born and raised in Detroit. We moved to Atlanta about 9 years ago, but came from Minneapolis where we spent about a year. I also lived on the west coast for about 14 years total in LA, Seattle, and San Diego. Getting out and living and seeing the rest of the country was always one of my goals .. just ended up in Atlanta.

Don't be fooled by the "Black Mecca" appeal of Atlanta. This is still Georgia my brother .. and black Georgians are ... uhhh .. err .. docile about their politics .. and black politics as is black economics, stuck somewhere between incredibly immature and amazingly dumb. Given that we have only beeen revlatively free in America for 43 years .. out of almost 400 years, the immaturity is sometimes understandable .. although no less frustrating.

I agree with you about Reagan who also walked into office union-busting.

I like Hartmann .. read a lot of his stuff.

I just gave you a postive rep. If you don't know what that is, you'll find out. If you don't like or like what someone says, you can either give them a positive or negative.

It's that little thing that looks like a scale upper right hand side next to permalink.

 

[BlackAsCoal]

I just gave you a postive rep. If you don't know what that is, you'll find out. If you don't like or like what someone says, you can either give them a positive or negative.

It's that little thing that looks like a scale upper right hand side next to permalink.

I didn't know what that was .. but that's for informing me and thanks for the rep.

 

[BlackAsCoal]

Know that the battle for the American soul rages here, just as it does on most boards like these.

Yes the anti-democratic government types, the libertopians and their close allies the pro-religious social fascists talk their talking point here just like they've been taught to by the brilliant propagandists on fascist TV and talk radio.

Their faith was shaken when they waw the REAL GOVERNMENT scrambling to prevent the economy from totally melting down, but once again, now that the central banks have saved the fascist monied interests asses, they're mostly sanguine with the solution and are already talkigb about how clever they are in picking stocks for their retirements.

Same old shit, different board.

Welcome.

Thanks for the welcome ..

 

[Kevin_Kennedy]

Unfortunately libertarians are all over the board and there are even pro-war libertarians who believe in LIBERVENTION

Hey hey hey, nothing wrong with us Libertarians.

I am not pro-war, however. Limited government, non-interventionism, and free markets. I'm obviously not anywhere near a socialist, but welcome to the board. It'll be interesting to discuss some topics with you.

 

[BlackAsCoal]

Hey hey hey, nothing wrong with us Libertarians.

I am not pro-war, however. Limited government, non-interventionism, and free markets. I'm obviously not anywhere near a socialist, but welcome to the board. It'll be interesting to discuss some topics with you.

Same here my brother .. I look forward to it