Sen. Reid and bated breaths (Update)

Reid to Unveil Final Health Care Bill Amendment Saturday in Anticipation of Christmas Eve Vote
by: Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t | Report
Friday 18 December 2009
Excerpt:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid plans to unveil a final compromise Saturday morning to a health care bill that numerous progressive Democrats, labor unions, and grassroots organizations said has been gutted of any meaningful consumer reforms and amounts to a bailout for the insurance industry.
Read more at:
http://www.truthout.org/topstories/121809jl01

In a metaphor, Sen. Harry Reid in his highly anticipated speech today will tell us Americans if we are to be treated as free and human or remain human chattel of the oligarchy.

I agree with Sen. Reid’s earlier remarks comparing battles over HealthCare Reform to a contemporary debate regarding slavery.

I posit there are few, if any, who could identify a Congress since 1865 to the present that would have freed us Blacks.

I would also wager there are few of us who would not now agree since the institution of slavery was considered by many financially successful and easily maintained, all of America’s inhabitants can now consider themselves slaves of the oligarchy and breathlessly, as myself, await the second Emancipation Proclamation to be read to us today by the good Sen. Harry Reid.
The lady sang, “I wish... I knew how... it would feel.... to be free…..”

Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-SPAN and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB

(Update)
Health reform's true colors
The real racial issue in this debate is not about Obama. It's about inequality.
By Michael Bader
Excerpt:
Rather than focusing on whether health-care reform opponents are somehow motivated by racism, we should be focusing on the fact that African Americans and Latinos have the most to gain from health-care reform - and the most to lose from its failure.
After the election of the first African American president, we shouldn't be surprised that race enters our national debates more easily. The "guess I'm racist" ad reflects frustration over the fact that criticisms of presidential initiatives are caught in that web. Sometimes legitimate policy criticism can be carelessly linked with the racist motivations of a small minority - such as those who forwarded e-mails depicting the president as an African witch doctor.
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/79596132.html

And
Comment:
 Gee....do you think Graham realizes that he (4+ / 0-)
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just acknowledged the systemic racism that white people practice in South Carolina.  He and his fellow white South Carolinians have their black people just where they want them...poor and sick..how dare the federal government step in to force South Carolina treat black people as human beings.  You just can't make this stuff up...:(
"When fascism comes to America, it'll be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." Sinclair Lewis
by lakehillsliberal on Wed Dec 23, 2009 at 07:32:08 AM PST
Read more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/12/23/818344/-Lindsay-GrahamBlack-People-will-cost-our-state-billions