>snit snat wrote:
> >
> >
> > "So whenever a community comes to me and asks me for help and says, "We're
> > being exploited and discriminated against and shafted in every way; we need
> > to organize," what am I going to say? "Sorry, guys, if I help organize you
> > to get power and you win, then you'll all become. just like Back of the
> > Yards, materialistic and all that,
>
>Try to historicize this. Under what conditions would someone come up to
>you and say that? I've gotten calls like that, and we (when there was a
>we) have tried our best to help. We did recover the life of one black
>student who was being railroaded to prison by a local cop. His family
>were very appreciative. And that was the end of it. I would do the same
>under the same conditions, but let us not fool ourselves that this sort
>of thing (without the conditions I suggest in my whole post) is of any
>relevance to building a left.
huh?
you missed the quotation marks and the URL i posted. I guess you don't want to read Alinsky, eh? :) Too bad.
Kelley
"We're in a fucking stagmire."
--Little Carmine, 'The Sopranos'