Doug Henwood wrote:
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> Of course not. Who said it is? But the simple solution - to accept
> conventional categories and just reverse their signs - isn't much of
> a solution, really.
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The black community (politically defined within that community but in response to growing repression from "outside") has no choice but to define itself as the black community. The bulk of non-blacks in the United States don't now give a fuck about what happens to blacks, and those who do give a fuck can't in practice do much except in collaboration with the black community raising hell. Giving orders to the Black Community from outside (as Rakesh tried to do and as you seem about to do) or raising sophisticated epistemological doubts about what the black community is certainly does not help.
Carrol