Malcolm X and building a Black Tammany Hall

[Art McGee]

> Revolutionary politics is not about choosing "pure" slogans, but in
> mobilizing people against their oppressor. In the 1960s and early 70s,
> black people were mobilizing around the notion that the "black community"
> was a victim of racism. They did not split hairs over whether a black
> sanitation worker was more oppressed than a funeral parlor owner. And you
> know something? They were closer to the truth than their ultraleft critics.
> You can not go by for a week without hearing about some cops pulling a
> black lawyer, schoolteacher or executive out of their car and beating them
> up during an arrest because they "fit" the profile of a criminal. It is
> better to move the ENTIRE black community against the capitalist forces of
> oppression than to sit on the sideline worrying about whether we are
> crossing imaginary class lines.
> 
> Louis Proyect
> (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

Louis, do you mind if I quote you on this?

I keep tidbits such as these in my signature file.  :-)

Art