What "Black Nationalism Debates" Do to Us (was Re: Trotsky, fascism, black nationalism etc)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Adolph Reed (qtd by Lou):
>The particular furor surrounding the image of Farrakhan and "black
>anti-Semitism" - and, course, the obligatory denunciation ritual -
>derives from two deeply ingrained and disturbing premises, as University
>of Chicago professor Kenneth Warren has noted. The first is that black
>Americans' claims to equal rights depend on their demonstration of moral
>rectitude. The corollary is that blacks' membership in the polity -
>unlike other American citizens' - is not conferred directly on
>individuals but is mediated by designated group leaders.

What do "black nationalism debates" accomplish on predominantly non-black
e-lists and fora, if not the reinforcement of the first of the "two deeply
ingrained and disturbing premises" that Reed describes so well, even though
the "debates" in question are conducted among leftists, despite undoubtedly
good intentions of those who participate in them?

Yoshie