Color of Anarchism Re: Protest ISO...

[David Schanoes]

Poor attempt at humor on my part.  Have no idea as to percentages for
African-Americans in anarchist groups.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 8:07 PM
Subject: Re: Color of Anarchism Re: Protest ISO...


> At 7:26 PM -0500 12/31/02, David Schanoes wrote:
> >  > At 5:54 PM -0500 12/31/02, David Schanoes wrote:
> >>  >I'm not trying to be sarcastic believe it or not, but are we
> >>  >forgetting that African Americans are only about 15% of the
> >>  >population?
> >>
> >  > What's the percentage of African-American in the anarchist movement?
1.5%?
> >
> >No, that's ten times the percentage of white people in the anarchist
> >movement.
>
> I'm talking about the proportions _within_ the anarchist movement:
> 1.5% people of color, and 98.5% whites?  There is no evidence that
> African-American anarchists amount to 15% of the total anarchist
> population here.
> --
> Yoshie
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