Paxo gets spiked

Director Spike Lee in an interview with Jeremy Paxman hits the nail on the head.

Paxo – “That doesn’t mean he does it because the President is black though is it?”

Spike – “Look, how long have you been Black?”

“I’ve never been Black”

“Thankyou very much so from someone whose been living in America for 2 years and whose ancestors were slaves for a hundred years, I’m trying to answer your question, racism still exists in the United States of America”

Theres a lot of things Socialists can criticise about Obama, but so far most attacks on him have come from the Conservative and Far-Right in the United States and a lot of it is based on racism.

For example – accusing him of being Kenyan born and not a US citizen, being a jihadist Muslim and that he has a “deep seated hatred of white people”. That last charge comes from Glenn Beck, a Fox News professional psycho who makes Bill O’Reilly look like Tony Benn by comparison.

Obama is probably gonna sell out on his health reforms because he doesn’t have the will or the ability to take on the US Health Insurance lobby. Even if his reforms did go ahead, it would not be the incorporation of private healthcare into a National, Universal, free of charge Health System which every other first world country apart from the USA enjoys.

Nevertheless when Obama is attacked by the right on racist and pro-market grounds it’s important Socialists respond to and rebut their arguments as the Obama camp has been useless at doing so, particularly over healthcare.

Still maybe Spike is a bit harsh, there will be a significant section of opposition to Obama which might not be racist but just nuts – like the one third of New Jersey Conservatives who think Obama is the antichrist