Horowitz is a big old victim, as you can see.
In Your Face
NB: David Horowitz welcomes and reads all comments. Due to the volume,
however, he is unable to respond to each message personally.
UC Berkeley Horowitz:
There is no reason to come to Cal to debate anyone except those
involved in this particular dispute, or representing the reparations
cause. Mr. Wise is irrelevant to this dispute. Mr. Wise can have his
debate with me over anything he wishes, anytime,anywhere, provided he
finds some person or group who will come up with my honorarium and
expenses, because that's the way I ration my time. I am willing to do
a Berkeley debate with the other side and wave my honorarium because I
obviously started something there I am not going to let them have any
excuse to walk away from it.
------ I'm responding again- I hope this
isn't tiresome. Now we're getting somewhere. I did look up Randall
Robinson and I realize now that he is central to the reparations cause
and isn't such an unknown. I guess I'm ignorant this because like most
college students, I majored in science, engineering and/or business
and my sum exposure to humanities and science classes consisted of
economics 101, and american history since 1850. But anyway, I was
wondering.. if we go to Robinson and he refuses to appear with you,
would you consider debating Judith Butler of UC Berkeley on the
reparations issue, if she were also partial to this idea. Because if
Robinson just says no, we would otherwise reach a block point. Perhaps
the ASUC or Cal performances could even give you the honorarium.
Reasons why I think this would be a good idea are: 1. You probably
don't like her work very much - that's assumed. 2. she would probably
support reparations (I mean, why wouldn't she?) and would be able to
represent the position well, even though I haven't plowed through all
her articles and books, and her main field is queer and gender
identity studies 3. She is at Cal, so she wouldn't be 'imported' from
outside, and she would be a big figurehead for a lot of the things you
object to about Berkeley as a school and as a city. It would be a
great match.
Christine Petersen (ottilie at hotmail.com)
Berkeley, CA
3/4/01
Horowitz responds:
You're still not appreciating the problem. Robinson will say no. But
there are a lot of people associated with this reparations claim --
Johnnie Cochran and Charles Ogletree and Henry Louis Gates to name
three. The important thing is that unless the students who marched
into the Daily Cal offices regard the chosen opponent as an
appropriate spokesman for them, the entire exercise is pointless.