H. Rap Brown (was Re: Corn transcript)

[Carrol Cox]

I know little about the case, but if I recall correctly, the original
question was not really whether he was guilty or not but whether, as a
practical political issue, it is correct for speakers at an anti-war
rally to defend him. Or more precisely, is the fqct that some speakers
at an ANSWER rally _did_ support him a reasonable bit of evidence
against ANSWER? My general feeling is that we are right to defend our
own! And that a "we" that does not include Mumia at least, and probably
Al-Amin, is I think not an "adequate" _we_. (I'm not sure what adjective
I want here, hence the quotes around _adequate_.)

And before that the thread concerned Corn, and among other things his
calling Al-Amin "Rap Brown." That puts Corn in the same category as
those rather aggressively racist sports jounalists of the mid-60s who
insisted on calling Muhhamad Ali "Cassius Clay."

Carrol