will feel uneasy about Ajamu Baraka. (The name is not all that much more bizarre than Barack Hussein Obama, so it's the person and his opinions that matter more.)

Mr Baraka would tell you he can't possibly be a "racist" because he's on the wrong end of the power structure. He will never mention that he just might be a bigot - anybody can be a bigot, regardless of who or what or where they are.

Frankly, his screeds sound rather too much like the BS that pours endlessly from Denise Oliver's keyboard, right down to the hating on "Charlie Hebdo" (a satirical rag which is an equal-opportunity offender, as near as I can tell) for "racism" and "Islamophobia". DEO completely missed the satire, it went whizzing right over her head - and it looks as though it went whizzing over his too. Satire is supposed to make people uncomfortable with their preconceived opinions.

If you ask me, picking him was a desperate Hail Mary pass from Ms. Stein to get people talking about her campaign - even if what they said was intensely negative (and some of it will be). "There is no such thing as bad publicity" IS a guiding principle in politics (it's why we're stuck with the nauseous choice of The Shill or The Hairball or Nobody).

and the operation and use of the military apparatus is your criteria, then Clinton is the only one who meets it.
Is this what you are advocating?

President no matter who she selected for VP. I'm pretty surprised at the number of people who actually think she has a chance. Perhaps it's part of the Bernie effect, thinking somehow that another politician is the answer and everyone else MUST see that.

Your depiction of the Black Agenda Report is rather laughable. Sounds a little right wingish. Like, "All Lives Matters". What if he had starred in a show on the Black Entertainment Network? You're saying a black person involved in a black oriented blog shouldn't be VP because it presents the wrong image?

From what I've seen of his "racist" language, it's been mostly on the mark. I'm not sure where you're getting the white supremacist" remark, but he did have this to say:

"The fact that so many white leftist supporters of Sanders can politically and psychologically disconnect his domestic program from his foreign policy positions that objectively support U.S. and Western neoliberal hegemony means that not only have they found a way to be comfortable collaborating with imperialism, but that they have also decided that they can support the implicit hierarchy that determines from an imperial perspective that lives in the White West matter more than others."

I found that to be basically true as well. Maybe you could provide a link where he called you a white supremacist. You say he's a racist because he called you a racist? That's pretty slim justification.

Relative to his allegedly removing things from his blog, which blog are you talking about? It couldn't have been Counterpunch. His opinion that West was being a Sheepdog for the Dems is actually correct in my view. He allied with Sheepdog Sanders to try to elect him as a Democratic party nominee for Prez, helping Sanders attract more people to the Democratic party. So ya, West was a sheepdog. Now he's switched to Stein and the GP.

I don't have a horse in this race, I'm not supporting Stein or the GP. But your depiction of Baraka borders on racist stereotyping.

In the meantime, I'll address some of them for people who don't know of Professor Baraka's credentials.
"Over the years, Baraka has taught political science and guest lectured at several colleges. He's currently an associate fellow at the progressive think tank Institute for Policy Studies. The main thread that runs through the past several decades of his biography is his commitment to protecting human rights, which he has pursued in various ways. From leading trainings for grassroots activists, to giving briefings to Congress, to serving on the boards of international human rights organizations, Baraka has done this work on different levels.
Baraka worked with Amnesty International to uncover human rights violations within the United States and to oppose the death penalty in the '90s. From 2004 to 2011, he served as the founding executive director of the US Human Rights Network, the first group in the United States whose goal was to apply international human rights standards to the country. USHRN spearheaded the Katrina Campaign on Internal Displacement, which sought to designate people who lost their homes during the hurricane as "internally displaced," a designation that highlights the government's responsibility to protect them. Baraka currently coordinates the Black Left Unity Network's Committee on International Affairs."

http://www.bustle.com/articles/176408-who-is-ajamu-baraka-jill-steins-vi...

It would probably help to be accurate when slinging mud, since Professor Baraka's blog is titled "A Voice from the Margins" NOT Black Agenda Report (which, BTW I read regularly), and the sheepdog label can be found there, and it was directed at Sanders, not Brother West (and that label may be arguably correct, after what I've seen and read after the convention). Your allegation that he called Berners "racists" really really needs some documentation there, pal, since every other statement you've made has been a flat-out misrepresentation (outside of your opinionated diatribe about the need for the authoritarian support of our military, which are ostensibly subordinate to the citizenry, eg, "civilians").
Interestingly, I've seen a few diatribes much like yours, one is up at TOP right now, and they use links to Clinton-supporter owned media like Haim Saban's network. CTR has been busy.