> At 11:46 AM -0800 12/31/02, Thomas Seay wrote:
> >The black communities (as well as others) have their forms of
organization.
>
> They do, but that doesn't stop them from joining the Democrats, the
> Republicans, or any other organization.
>
> At 11:46 AM -0800 12/31/02, Thomas Seay wrote:
> >There is no need for a "recruitment" policy. No need UNLESS you
> >believe in vanguardism and have to get everyone to unify around a
> >party program. I suspect that it is this need for so-called unity
> >(MEDIATED by a vanguard party) that drives much of this concern for
> >recruitment of minorities.
>
> Is it only the "vanguard parties" that should exhibit concern for
> recruitment of minorities? None of the institutions that I've
> mentioned as points of comparison -- the US military, corporations,
> the Bretton Woods institutions, the Democrats, the Republicans, etc.
> -- are what you call "vanguard parties." It seems they are
> interested at the very least for their own good; and so are most
> left-wing political organizations -- like the Labor Party, the Green
> Party, etc. -- though results vary. Why shouldn't anarchists be
> interested in recruitment of minorities or should they be less
> interested than political institutions that are not "vanguard
> parties"?
>
> At 11:46 AM -0800 12/31/02, Thomas Seay wrote:
> >Minorities have and will continue to revolt. I wonder what would
> >have happened during the LA riots if the WWP had been leading that
> >revolt (they probably would have requested that the rioters wait and
> >get a march permit from the police). Let each of us revolt and
> >demonstrate in our own way and not impose our expectations and our
> >model on others.
>
> You mean the 1991 LA riot? It wasn't a "black riot." What is often
> overlooked are the uprising's multiracial character -- whites,
> Latinos, and others participated in looting, etc.; multiple causes of
> the uprising (economic distress, chronic police brutality and racial
> profiling, the fact that a teenage black girl named Latasha Harlins
> was shot to death by a female Korean grocery owner Soon Ja Du inside
> her shop and she was given probation, etc.); effects of the uprising,
> for instance on Latinos:
>
> ***** L.A. RIOTS: Latinos & L.A. Uprising: Economic Context
>
> ...With assistance from the LAPD the INS conducted sweeps through
> riot torn areas. As a result of these actions over 800 individuals
> were deported, nearly all of whom were Latino....
> <http://www.hhh.umn.edu/pubpol/pubpol-d/199505/0064.html> *****
>
> Did the uprising have a lasting impact on LA, making it a better
> place, economically and politically?
>
> ***** Ten years have passed and things have only changed on the
> surface. Scratch a little deeper, and the truth is painfully clear.
> More than $3 billion has been spent renovating the facades of the
> buildings so businesses could re-open, but the people of South
> Central live with a 25 percent unemployment rate. LAPD had to pull
> its reputation out of the mud, but consistency has eluded it. In only
> 10 years, four different police chiefs have tried and failed. And
> Rodney King, the fallen hero, what became of him? Today, on the 10th
> anniversary of the verdict, he is living in a drug-rehab clinic and
> back in trouble with the law.
>
> <http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/95/147/03_3.html> *****
> --
> Yoshie
>
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