Left Falls Apart as Center Holds

[Art McGee]

[Interesting that Reed is the only Black leftist they
bothered to quote. I've noticed lately that since September
11th, white folks on the Left have had there heads up their
asses arguing amongst themselves about lots of bullshit.
Who gives a fuck what Hitchens or Chomsky think about each
other? The title of that infamous article should have been
"The Incredible Whiteness of Left Discourse."--Art McGee]

New York Observer

October 22, 2001

Left Falls Apart as Center Holds

By Rick Perlstein <rperlstein at observer.com>

"Adolph Reed, a legendarily combative activist and New
School professor, is the kind of partisan whom it's hard to
find at a loss for words on any day. His first reaction upon
hearing about the attack was "I hope they" -- meaning we --
"don't nuke anybody." Later he allowed for the appropriateness
of "maybe even a military response, all things considered."
His tone is now one of regret and hesitation. "One thing I
find frustrating is that there are no acceptable responses
from a left perspective." Even to think about the options,
he says, is like juggling, one ball being that "what's made
it possible to fund and build an apparatus to carry the
attacks out at least partly has to do with the history of
Western imperalism in other regions. But the other ball is
that this is an attack on innocent people -- a lot of them
working people.""

Full Story:

http://www.observer.com/pages/frontpage1.asp

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