guest_writer 0 2008-08-28T00:00:00Z Barack Obama supporters would have you believe that their candidate's presidential nomination is the glorious, straight-line culmination of the Black Freedom Struggle whose previous high-water mark, they believe, was the 1963 March on Washington, the 45th anniversary of which coincides with this week's Democratic National Convention. Obama's public relations agents attempt to bracket the history of modern U.S. race relations within a marketable 45-year period that begins with a snippet from Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech and ends - for the time being - with the grand peroration of Obama's acceptance speech before the cheering multitudes, in Denver. These dates are presented as the bookends of Black struggle - to be amended and extended when President Obama delivers his State of the Union Address, in January. Glen 53549 true 2008-08-27T10:02:48Z Ford 0 18591 0 1 Katrina Not Obama the-age-of-katrina-not-obama-by-glen-ford BAR http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=755&Itemid=1 none 2009-09-25T13:18:00Z 11727