[lbo-talk] good news! more job declines coming!!

[R]

interesting.  where does this put today's generation which was victimized by
jim crow in florida during the 2000 presidential election?   it's my
understanding NAACP lawyers still haven't gotten florida's fraudulent list
of "convicted felons" destroyed despite the fact their suit was "settled."

R

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Dwayne Monroe
To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 10:07 AM
Subject: Re:[lbo-talk] good news! more job declines coming!!

Regarding the co-dependence of activism and social
conditions...

My Grandfather was a part of that generation of Black
men who, having served in the Second World War and
gone toe-to-toe with Waffen SS units in the Ardennes
during the "Battle of the Bulge", were in no mood to
return to a world where any jackhole could call them
n-word fifty times a day without consequence.

He attributed the rise of the civil rights movement in
the 1950s to the following: the racialist death cult
of the Nazis, which displayed the inevitable end-point
of supremacist ideas, the fact that men like him were
sent abroad and got to see the wider world and also,
quite frankly, the affect being a young, smooth
cheeked killer who took no shit had upon a once
submissive psyche.

It was his view that these factors, among other large
social trends, forged the less fearful generation of
African American men and women who founded and peopled
the various organizations that formed the core of the
Civil Rights effort.

An example of right time, right conditions, right
people.

DRM

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