I. Reed Juice! on Joan Walsh, Progessives & Obama

Show description for Sunday 5/8/2011 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Ishmael Reed returns to discuss his new novel, Juice!

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	Betty Carter	This Is Always	Inside Betty Carter	United Artists
	Betty Carter	Beware My Heart	Inside Betty Carter	United Artists
	Betty Carter	Some Other Time	Inside Betty Carter	United Artists
	Betty Carter	Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most	Inside Betty Carter	United Artists
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	Sarah Vaughn	All I Do	Sarah + 2	Roulette
	Sarah Vaughn	I Understand	Sarah + 2	Roulette
	Sarah Vaughn	Baby Won't You Please Come Home	Sarah + 2	Roulette
	Sarah Vaughn	When Lights Are Low	Sarah + 2	Roulette
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	Chico Hamilton Quintet	Concerto Of Jazz Themes From The Soundtrack Of Sweet Smell Of Success	The Sweet Smell Of Success	Decca
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	Modern Jazz Quartet	Odds Against Tomorrow	Dedicated To Connie	Atlantic
	Roscoe Mitchell & Amiri Baraka	In Town	MLK Concert at Yoshi's SF Jan. 17, 2011	Private Recording
	Roscoe Mitchell & Amiri Baraka	Selections From Un Poco Low Coup	MLK Concert at Yoshi's SF Jan. 17, 2011	Private Recording
	Julian "Cannonball" Adderley	Love For Sale	Somethin' Else	Blue Note
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	Julian "Cannonball" Adderley	One For Daddy-O	Somethin' Else	Blue Note
	Julian "Cannonball" Adderley	Dancing In The Dark	Somethin' Else	Blue Note
	John Coltrane	I'm Old Fashioned	Blue Train	Blue Note
	John Coltrane	Lazy Bird	Blue Train	Blue Note
	Wynton Kelly	Keep It Moving (excerpt)	Kelly Blue	Riverside
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	Interview With Ishmael Reed By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Ishmael Reed By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Ishmael Reed By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Ishmael Reed By Justin Desmangles
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	Albert Ayler	Mothers	Holy Ghost	Revenant

Not Grand, Not A Party, Just Old

For many whites, no matter what their politics, the Tea Party is All in the Family, literally. They may have an Uncle Archie, bigoted, racist, repulsive to common sense and dignity, but that doesn't keep them from sending him a Christmas card or remembering his, or his children's birthday. White radicals, and even a few progressives, have been so hopped up on this comic book fantasy of a "total seizure of power," ala China, or Cuba, (both of which were largely peasant societies and virtually monolingual), that they are willing to feign this nonsense that the Tea Party is an authentic populist uprising. All lies, as shown by the recent NAACP report, http://teapartynationalism.com/ . Of course what they ignore, time and time again, is the that vast, sprawling, technologically advanced state of this population, is also multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, and unlikely to meet on any platform supporting the right, or a white male theocracy, no matter how allegedly anti-government. Historically white liberals, progressives and radicals, have long bemoaned their collective inability to break bread with blacks, gaining and maintaining power with us, by building a coalition with our working class and impoverished.(See The Wages of Whiteness by David Roediger,or The Ordeal of Assimilation: A Documentary History of the White Working Class.) Obama has presented a historical opportunity to do this, and yet they do not. Is this yet another example of whites refusal to accept black leadership? Absolutely. There are many positive aspects of the Obama administration around which even staunch Communist's like Amiri Baraka, or Jack Hirschman, have saw fit to propagandize in favor of their revolutionary agenda. White progressives, on the other hand, bitch about their disappointments in him, sometimes regurgitating the most bilious, fact-free, talking points from the far right to do so. As blacks we are used to disappointments in elected leaders, but it doesn't cause us to abandon ship. We've been at it's bottom too long for that game! Whites who advocate for the Tea Party as some kind of authentic populist movement are as addicted to the rhetoric of white supremacy as their most backward and criminal brethren.