raydelcamino August 25th, 2009 11:04 am
Obama is carrying on the Chicago tradition of staying close to the organized criminals that own him.
Laugh out loud, Obama is apparently a gangsta in a suit.
Judging from the movies, in the old days, most of the top gangstas wore suits. That's understandable because for one thing, back then, neither hip hop music nor hip hop clothing was yet thought of.
Maybe we need progressive gangstas to capture hearts and minds in the US culture?
For example, we need progressive doctors to set aside 10-20% of their time for providing care for the struggling masses on a sliding scale based on income, down to $10 per hour for the poorest. A doctor would be a bona fide progressive gangsta if he did that, laugh out loud.
Jerry D Rose August 25th, 2009 2:44 pm
tremaine: Well, we do have some medical progressive gangstas of a sort like the Remote Areas Medical group, founded to give free medical care in "remote areas" of the Third World but who set up shop in Inglewood CA in August and were inundated with people from America's own third world of south Los Angeles. This and other spectacular "free clinics" have done yeoman work, in my opinion. While their efforts are of the "drop in the bucket" variety in relation to the overall medical needs of the country, they do dramatize for Americans just how desperate are people for medical care. And they do get publicity: I saw a feature story on the Inglewood clinic two or three times on ABC News. And you are right to suggest that the same could be done on a smaller scale by any medical practitioners in any community who wanted to brave the condemnation of their professional peers and open up free clinics "right here in River City." (And there are still a few local TV stations and newspapers that would report them.)
[The above conversation was based on this article.]
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