---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 14:36:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Seth Sandronsky - 3472339 <ssandron at nunic.nu.edu> To: charles brown <cdehbrown at hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Constitutional Longevity. Was Religiosity...
Charles,
I agree with what you say about the historically fascist nature of U.S. life for black Americans. Only the presence of federal troops during Reconstruction and the years following Brown vs. Board of Ed. diminished, in part and for a short time, such oppression for black folk. As Malcom X said, "Don't tell me, oh, it's the South (as an explanation for the class and race subjugation of black Americans). If you're south of Canada you're in the South." Americans of all backgrounds need that kind of plain speaking analysis of the status quo today more than ever.
Regards, Seth Sandronsky
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, charles brown wrote:
>
> Dan Lazare wrote:
> >
> >I still don't see how you can have fascism within the context of a
> bourgeois-
> >liberal republic.
>
> Well, I am being a little creative with the concept, but did Black
> people have the full panoply of bourgeois democratic rights, civil
> liberties ? Did they have the full protection of the Bill of Rights ?
> When a huge fraction of the population are systematically denied these
> do you just say, oh , but this is a liberal republic, so , this is not
> fascism ?
>
> Was South Africa with apartheid a liberal republic because it had a
> constitution and elections ? or was it a mixed republic and
> anti-republic ?
>
>
>
> Before I had said:
> ><<
> > I agree that the U.S. is not fascist now. But Jim Crow was fascism for
> > Black people, in all the essentials. It was pre-Italian fascism, but
> > part of the rise of imperialism in the U.S., so it had the essential
> > class characteristic and was open terrorist rule. It is important to
> say
> > this to debunk the American myth of the ultimately democratic U.S.,
> > never fascist and all that.
> >
> > Charles Brown
> >
> > >>
> >
>
>
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