>>> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> 01/07/00 11:02AM >>>
[Here's a piece bound to make Marc Cooper even more friends than he's
earned in the Pacifica wars. From this week's New York Press.]
For a Mumia-Free 2000 by Marc Cooper
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Most death row prisoners aren't so cuddly, so politically correct, as Mumia. I wonder how many of their names are even known by those still marching in circles with their Free Mumia signs. It's about time they learned.
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CB: But Cooper's article puts so much emphasis on the fact that Mumia is NOT politically correct. He calls Abu-Jamal a "flaky cult member", compares him almost with Charles Manson, calls Jamal a "wigged out hero", and says:
"Perhaps a wise legal strategy-but politically it leaves much to be desired.
As do Mumia's politics in general. Though he briefly passed through the Black Panthers as a young man, Mumia's latest political incarnation is as a follower of the Philadelphia-based group known as MOVE. No serious political analyst can conclude that MOVE is anything more than an off-keel personality cult built around its politically grotesque leader, the deceased John Africa."
In other words, Mumia is politically INcorrect , according to Cooper.
And by Cooper's standards, there aren't too many people who are very politically correct. Most of them have never been near the Black Panthers or anything slightly political. Who on death row would Cooper propose we champion the cause of ?
CB