Pleasures

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Nov 11 13:58:07 PST 2000


Nathan Newman wrote:


>The fact that you named a black liberal politician to compare to the racist
>intimidation charged in Florida is reactionary.
>
>Black students in Florida are holding mass sitdowns to protest their denial
>of the right to vote and you are sitting there comparing it to the opression
>of a bunch of white lefties who didn't like the stadium vote in San
>Francisco? In a time when black mass organizations are mobilizing on this
>issue, you continue to spout the propaganda lines of the GOP opposing
>investigations.
>
>How is that not reactionary?

Is it reactionary to point out that urban Democratic machines often legitimate themselves with black liberals even though the real powers behind them are the usual gang of financiers and developers? Stanley Hill's people made a similar racial defense of their regime, even though they'd completely sold out their largely black and Latino membership. In the words that Dinkins used to reassure a Wall Street audience that he'd have no problem cutting the NYC budget, "Don't worry, they'll take it from me."

Doug



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