Reparations: What does the campaign involve

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Charles Brown wrote:
>
>>Conyers attended the BRC meeting in Detroit in June 2000, and has 
>>long been a champion of the principles in the BRC basic documents, 
>>so does that mean his majority Black district elects a BRCer as an 
>>authentic voice of Black America ?
>
>Well, there is no authentic voice of black America, is there? The 
>white ruling class likes to pick authentic voices - part of the 
>luxury of being a ruling class is getting to designate the official 
>representatives of groups you oppress - but I would like to hear 
>Carrol's justification for a white Marxist doing a similar thing. 
>Over the years, he's argued that "outsiders" have no right to offer 
>opinions on matters of concern to "insiders" - I remember him making 
>that argument about China's membership in the WTO, for example, 
>which many non-Chinese oppose as detrimental to the interests of 
>Chinese workers - but he does seem to have preferences for who 
>represents the insiders. So I'd like to hear the theory behind the 
>choosing.
>
>Doug

The theoretical premise behind the choosing is that there are 
objective interests of the working class which are diametrically 
opposed to those of capital & that it takes the social emancipation 
of the proletariat through the abolition of capitalism & 
establishment of socialism to accomplish the universal emancipation 
of humanity.  Those who have yet to accept this premise probably have 
a hard time making up his mind as to which voice best represents the 
interests of black America: Al Gore, George Bush, Colin Powell, 
Clarence Thomas, or the Black Radical Congress?

Yoshie