I am glad you understand "people of color" so well because you live in DC. Course we in Chicago wouldn't know about that. I am sorry you find my generalization that most "people of color" are working people with family concerns to be offensive. Is that because any geberalization about "people of color" is offensive? Yeah, my info about A16 comes from the news and the net, what did you think?
In a message dated Tue, 20 Jun 2000 12:24:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Chuck0 <chuck at tao.ca> writes:
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> Apparently Chuck sees no difference between liberal democracy, majority rule, representative organization with free speech and competitive elections, and Stalinist terror. Lord spare us from anarchochildishness. Chuck, have you ever given any thought to the idea that "people of color" are typically working people and may have been incapacited from participating in endless consensus-based no-leader structures for the raeson that other working parents would be incapacitated from doing that? Yeah, I think it's fair to slam A16 for being white, and I would add, student based and middle class. --jks
On what evidence do you base your slam of A16? Surveys? What newspaper pundits wrote?
I have no idea who you are, but your patronizing attitude towards my opinions is making you look bad. I have a pretty good understanding of the day to day lives of people of color. After all, I commute with many of them here in D.C. and live in the same community as them. One thing I've learned from living here is that only a fool would make generalizations about people of color, because they are a diverse bunch, even within their own cultures.
I also wasn't aware that short meetings were the hallmark of non-consensus-based social movements. I've certainly been to more than a few marathin meetings where voting was used or there were leaders.
The problem here is a lack of sensitivity to the needs of working class people (regardless of color) by young white activists
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