>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?
Of the black Americans who vote, about 90% vote for Democrats. That's nihilism of a sort (a political analogue of the therapeutic nihilism about 19th century medicine), but it's not what you mean. Nor is it terribly radical.
Doug