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ace, dear, i am fully aware of the genealogy of that statement. i dont regard it as particularly loaded racially, though it is a term that originates with african-american slang of the 60s and 70s. it refers to a lack of integrity, a willingness to dance around, to try first this then that, to bob and weave. the way you argue here is nothing but that. it is not a great concern to me if it offensive. i certainly only use it because it captures your m.o. so well. if it bugs you really, change your m.o.
for the record, my positions is pretty close to what dc outlines above. i'm ok with the action as it currently is unfolding...with ambivalences. i assume that congress is being consulted now about things in case the us does find itself hoovered into ground actions...which i wouldn't support. it's not at all a matter of rah rah obama...it really is a matter of supporting the air action because it stopped a massacre.
and i'm saddened by the new fighting in gaza. note that there's nary a word about the use of military technologies on civilians/loosely organized/barely not amateurs.
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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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