[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- Should White Men Feel Guilty?
- [Sociological Images - lisa]
"No. You should feel angry. And you should feel committed to doing something to address that legacy…
"There’s a big difference between guilt and responsibility…
"Guilt is what you feel for what you’ve done. Responsibility is what you take because of the kind of person you are…"
[video and transcript]
- Obama’s disastrous path
- [WaPo - Katrina vanden Heuvel]
This president has a historic mandate. Just as Abraham Lincoln had to lead the nation from slavery and Franklin Roosevelt from the Depression, this president must lead the nation from the calamitous failures of three decades of conservative dominance. This requires beginning to reverse the perverse tax policies that have contributed to gilded-age inequality and starved the government of resources needed for vital investments. This demands correcting destabilizing global imbalances, laying a new foundation for reviving American manufacturing and shackling financial speculation. It means ensuring the United States leads rather than lags in the green industrial revolution. And it requires unwinding the self-destructive military adventures abroad. The president must strengthen America's basic social contract in a global economy, not weaken it.
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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