I caught this one via Professor Black Woman:
Elaine Brown Seeks the Green Party Nomination for President
As a former leader of the Black Panther Party, a Green Party candidate for mayor of Brunswick, Georgia (2005), an author and college lecturer, a community organizer—as co-founder of Mothers Advocating Juvenile Justice and the National Alliance for Radical Prison Reform, and a local leader of the “No on One†campaign (advocating same gender partnership rights) (Atlanta, 1997-2004)—and as executive director of the Michael Lewis (“Little Bâ€) Legal Defense Committee, an activist in the campaigns to free political prisoners Imam Jamil Al-Amin, Chip Fitzgerald and Siddique Hasan, and simply as a black woman from the ghetto (Philadelphia), I have a long history and significant credentials in the struggle for social, political and economic justice in the United States.
In the absence of a national progressive movement toward the institution of fundamental change in the United States, I believe a ballot cast for a Green Party candidate or issue represents the most significant instrument for change available for the Marginalized Millions—black people, brown people, other people of color, poor working people, those languishing in prison, those without decent housing or health care and all the other oppressed people trying to survive at the bottom of life in the most powerful nation in the world. That is, change will not be e-mailed, rapped in a CD or YouTubed. To paraphrase Malcolm X, for the masses of disenfranchised and disaffected millions in America, the ballot is the bullet!
It is my intention to use my presidential campaign to galvanize the non-voting Marginalized Millions to seize the ballot of the Green Party toward their self-empowerment. The Green Party, too, must seize this moment of national malaise and disillusion to come out of the morass of being a repository for disgruntled Democrats and open the Party’s doors to the non-voting millions so as to actively and powerfully challenge the status quo and become an effective force in the national political arena. I believe I am a catalyst the Green Party can use for this necessary transition.
Following ProfBW’s lead, I should point out that this is not a political endorsement on my part. It will be all too clear if and when I endorse a candidate for President.
Interesting, since my first thought was, OMG, if she gets the nomination, we will have to listen to David Horowitz trash her right up until the election. (((holds nose))) And I’d really rather not!
But that is how racially-targeted political scapegoating works, isn’t it? “Better not, might start trouble,” is the modus operandi. That is how people get silenced, the fear of trouble. So, fuck Horowitz!
In case you don’t know the whole sordid story, or only bits and pieces: David and Elaine, redux
Horowitz grabs ANY excuse to get himself on TV, so remember, you heard it from me, first.
I’m not entirely sure that’s an accurate paraphrase of Malcolm X, but interesting all the same.
Hmmmm…between her and Cynthia McKinney — who also announced her Green Party POTUS candidacy last week — the debates should be quite interesting.
Anthony