> Only when by "communicating with African Americans" you mean embracing
> "gangsta rap" and generally pandering to the feeling of streets thugs.
> Most African-Americans I know have no problems siding with- and voting
> for the mainstream Democratic candidates. Au contraire, many of them
> find my red - green sympathies a bunch of pie-in-the-sky BS. A clear
> evidence of that was last mayoral election on Baltimore, when a
> mainstream white candidate got more black votes than two African
> -American ones - one acting as a street thug and the other one making
> vague promises to "neighborhoods."
Yep, the politics of many African-Americans are pretty fucked up these days. This is why I roll my eyes when I hear other activists argue that we need to tone down our radical politics to reach more African Americans. Of course our radical anti-capitalist politics aren't going to appeal to a segment of the population obsessed with relgious idiocy, the Democratic Part, and the worse forms of capitalist consumerism.
I think I'd have more luck talking anti-capitalist ideas here in the Kansas City burbs than I would in Prince Georges County, Maryland.
Chuck0