[Fwd: Oakland highlights]

[Carrol Cox]

The unfortunate post I sent to the list instead of directly to Angela
was the last in a series of posts to Angela in response to off-list
posts she had sent to me. I was not really prepared now to develop my
position in a way that I thought suitable for the list itself. But since
I sent that post, I am now forwarding the preceding post to Angela,
since  it will provide a little context.

Doug speaks of communicating across borders. I think lbo does serve this
purpose rather successfully. I am delighted, for example, to be on the
same list with Max Sawicky, rough as many of our exchanges have been,
and of course with Doug himself.

But not all borders are easy to debate across, and the border
established, for example, by the passage from Rakesh quoted in Ken's
last post, a despicable attack on nearly two generations of black
leadership, is not a border across which debate can be very useful. If
U.S. leftists will really tolerate positions such as that, then the
struggles of the 60s were indeed wasted.

I find it sad that someone should threaten to make a scene over my nasty
personal comment on Rakesh, but apparently that same person can contain
his/her equanimity in the face of Rakesh's steadily worsening attack on
so many heroes of the black liberation struggle. It only underlines for
me the probability that most Americans objectively refuse to believe
that African Americans can be trusted to think for themselves. THat is
the only assumption that, for me, makes Rakesh's position intelligible.

Carrol

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