>From: "Nathan Newman" <nathan at newman.org>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
>Subject: Re: Why I'm leaving the NY Coalition for Peace and Justice
>Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 15:26:49 -0500
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Charles Brown" <CharlesB at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us>
>
> >CB: I hope Diane Lent is not saying that the main reason people of color
>are not joining to the >extent they are not, because they are concerned
>that the issue of revenge for Sept. 11 is not >emphasized enough in the
>coalition. I doubt that a lot.
>
>Although there was some interesting poll results where african americans
>were more likely to favor racial profiling of arabs in hunting down the
>terrorists than whites.
>From S Sengupta's piece in the Times onwards, lots of white people are
savoring this cute little irony. Frankly, I think it's going to be used as
a way of delegitimizing black protests over Probable Cause. I find that
poll extremely suspicious. However, I would appreciate a reference so I can
see who did it.
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