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i just read the speech. i don't see why you'd be offended by it. it is surreal to me that the republicans are so touchy about this sort of description of the heritage they have to assume, like it or not, as a function of their support for the bush administration that they would be willing to risk exacerbating a panicky situation by voting against the bill---this quite apart from the problems i thought the bill had when i read through it this morning (over coffee---i don;t know what i was thinking--i really think i am the world's dullest human sometimes)...the way this has been pitched by most of the political class--including cowboy george--is as an unpleasant necessity. the republicans bolted. i don't see it as noble--i see it as partisan. they were collectively snippy about pelosi's speech and more interested in trying to fry her than in going along with their own party leadership.
to be clear about this, i find it funny more than anything else.
i don't have the axe to grind in it that you might think, ace.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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