[lbo-talk] Re: dean and rebel flags

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Nov 7 11:23:00 PST 2003


John Adams wrote:


>What he says is, in my experience, true enough. I believe the
>majority--at least two-thirds--of those who display the confederate
>flag do so without racist intent.

And Dean was right to talk about trying to peel them away from the Repubs with, for the lack of a better phrase, social democratic policies. But to do so requires talking more explicitly about class and its relation to race than we usually do in American politics.

Doug



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