Okay.
I went to the 92nd Street Y two Saturday evenings ago to see Tavis Smiley interview Cornel West. I don’t care for Smiley, but I went because I was entertaining a friend’s guest from London (a sister) who wanted to go — real bad.
About halfway through the evening, I noticed she was leaning far way from me, and almost sitting in a seat two spots from me. I was heckling, Tavis. She was pretending not to know me.
You know all Tavis did the entire night was bash Obama and talk about how horrible the man is for the country, and how everyone voting for him was basically a “negro.” The audience was smart though . . . they didn’t eat up his rhetoric.
But I couldn’t help myself, so don’t ever take me to anything involving, Tavis . . . I don’t know how to act.
During question and answer a few people politely called him out with thoughtful questions. And Cornel West finally said what Amiri Baraka has been saying all along to these pseudo-revolutionaries: McCain is the enemy. For example, how about this, Tavis!
The Bush administration this month is quietly cutting off birth control supplies to some of the world’s poorest women in Africa.
Thus the paradox of a “pro-life” administration adopting a policy whose result will be tens of thousands of additional abortions each year — along with more women dying in childbirth.
The saga also spotlights a clear difference between Barack Obama and John McCain. Senator Obama supports U.N.-led efforts to promote family planning; Senator McCain stands with President Bush in opposing certain crucial efforts to help women reduce unwanted pregnancies in Africa and Asia.
This election is serious, Tavis. Either you’re part of the solution or you’re part of the problem.
