Anyway, I've never lived in a racially divided society so there's a good chance I'll say something idiotic here, nevertheless:
I buy Art's story that blacks feel like the rest of the worlds' dispossessed about S11, which can't be said about any other group. As blacks seem to be the only radical force left at a time when the US is in danger of turning fascist - for real, this time - is anyone in the left doing anything to awaken the political consciousness that is buried under their nihilistic hatred?
Hakki
|| -----Original Message-----
|| From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
|| [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Carrol Cox
||
|| Hakki Alacakaptan wrote:
|| >
|| > That's exactly why I retracted my counter-insult. Listen to
|| the guy, he's
|| > angry as hell but he's also telling us clearly why, if you
|| care to read
|| > between the epithets. He's blaming the white left of having
|| auto-destructed
|| > by deserting the blacks.
||
|| Those from an SWP background dispute this hotly, but I have always
|| argued that (regardless of one's estimation of the Panthers) the
|| anti-war movement's failure to take a stand against the repression of
|| the Panthers in the fall of 1969 marked the beginning of the death of
|| the '60s left. The end of that slow death was the failure of the ERA --
|| a failure which in part at least reflected the switch in the women's
|| movement from militant tactics to "sensible lobbying," which necessarily
|| included a de facto betrayal of the black movement.
|| (...)