“If we want to take this country back, Nancy Pelosi’s got to go. Hey, hey, Nancy, I sure hope Cindy [Sheehan] kicks your ass!” Courtesy of David Swanson of AfterDowningStreet.org, it’s the Cindy Sheehan for Congress song!

With Black youth on the front lines this election season, along with all youth plus older Blacks and other people of color, the struggle for real democracy can finally claim victory in the U.S. Masses of new voters have registered and are already lining up to vote wherever early voting is available, as it is here in the Bay Area.

In the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, the historically Black Fillmore district – since dubbed the “Western Addition” – underwent a massive phase of urban renewal in which block after block was literally razed to the ground to make way for redevelopment. The impact on the Black community was devastating.