[PEN-L:10216] Re: [stormingheaven] ebonics?

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Aug 23 09:52:33 PDT 1999


Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


> True. But I made no statement about the number of liberal academics.
> Instead, I implied that IMHO the academic liberals and leftists (whatever
> their number) are more concerned with symbols than material reality.

I understand that three checkout clerks in Bangor Maine are more concerned with the altitude of the cash register than with the distribution of various kinds of beans on the shelves. The "liberals and leftists" that obsess Wojtek are of even less importance in "the left" (such as it is) than those rumored checkout clerks. Wojtek ought to stop worrying about campus politics, which are of far less political impace (even during the '60s) than he seems to think.

Carrol



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