[lbo-talk] Beaten Black Man's Death a Homicide (Cincinnati)

[Michael Dawson -PSU]

> Wojtek wrote:
>
> There is prejudice and there is behavior feeding into
> that prejudice.  For this reason, I think
> organizations like NAACP have a special responsibility
> to popularize images of black people that defy
> stereotypes - like doctors, lawyers, teachers,
> academics, and other professional types.

This is the voice of Booker T. Washington:  "Never mind the objective
political economic conditions.  Let's all be me and show the world how
mainstream we are.  Then, they'll help us."

Bunk.  21st-century racism is 95 percent a by-product of class structures
built in the past four centuries.  Change the employment and income
situation, and our grandchildren will treat each other well.  Fail to change
them, and our grandkids will be repeating these hopeless tropes about
role-models, etc.

"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given
by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."  MLK, "Letter from
Birmingham City Jail"