82nd Airborne used in 67 in Detroit had 22% black composition.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 10:57 PM Subject: Re: Color of Anarchism Re: Protest ISO...
> >I understand both CO's and TS's comments. It appears, however, that
> >you have defined the terms and the conditions in such a way that
> >anything the "left" does would be a manifestation of tokenism.
> >
> >If a left group puts forth its members of color to demonstrate that
> >it wants to build that connection, you call it tokenism. If a
> >group, for example, selects an African-American to confront a
> >reactionary black capitalist group (in order clearly to finesse the
> >race card), that's tokenism.
> >
> >But if a group doesn't do any of this, then it's not guilty of
> >tokenism, it's going to be just lily white.
> >
> >D.
>
> African Americans and other people of color are still grossly
> underrepresented in the power elites (especially among the ruling
> class), but they've come to occupy significant and sometimes
> prominent positions within governments at all levels (except the US
> Senate), the military, the police, corporations, schools, etc., etc.
>
> Chants such as "One, two, three, four, we don't want your racist
> war!" "Hey, hey, ho, ho, racist cops have got to go!" sound rather
> hollow when protesters are less racially integrated than the cops who
> police them and the military that they criticize.
> --
> Yoshie
>
> * Calendar of Events in Columbus:
> <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html>
> * Anti-War Activist Resources:
<http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/activist.html>
> * Student International Forum: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/>
> * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osudivest.org/>