[lbo-talk] LBO-Talk = Outliers (What Do The Iraqi ResistanceDebates And The Mars Rovers Debates Have In Common?)

[Dennis Perrin]

> BTW the most I've ever said about my race is that I'm not Chinese/Asian.
So
> I don't know what you're basing this on. As it happens I am a white
> Australian. I have no idea why this is significant to "polling on this
topic
> in the USA", a country I've never been to. And if most people of colour in
> the US supported the Iraqi resistance, which seems unlikely, what would it
> prove? Would it represent a huge contribution to breaking down racism in
the
> USA, or a better Iraq?
>
> regards,
>
> Grant.

Just as I suspected: yet another white man commenting on the fate of Iraqi
People of Color(tm). Team B, of which I and the heroic Carrol Cox are a
part, is clearly politically more advanced than the all-white Team A, your
crowd.

*****Team B Outpaces Team A on LBO List
by Carrie Sampson
New York
February 16, 2004

In a stunning display of political maturity and revolutionary solidarity
with Oppressed Masses all over the planet, Team B of the LBO Talk List,
moderated by the white economics author Doug Henwood, has shown the way for
other Teams of Color on other lists, putting to shame Team A, an all-white
contingent of liberals who feel free to opine on the political fortunes of
the Iraqi Resistance.

"It's typical colonial posturing," says Yoshie Furuhashi, a leader of Team
B. "Thankfully, there are those of us committed to resist such paternal
attitudes, and hopefully show the correct path to commenting on other
countries that few of us have ever visited, and whose languages we do not
speak."

Carrol Cox, another Team B leader, concurred. "There is no 'left' at LBO.
There are plenty of armchair neo-imperialists, however, who refuse to listen
or heed the words of dispassionate, experienced political actors such as
myself. It is quite frustrating, but thankfully there are courageous
revolutionaries like Yoshie to remind us of what truly matters -- race and
sex as defined by those who are more radical than reality itself."

LBO moderator Doug Henwood confessed, "Well, frankly I'm ashamed of myself.
When you go up against a force like Yoshie you risk looking foolish and
reactionary, and I'm afraid this is yet another case of that." Henwood
added, "I try to stifle Yoshie, limiting her to three posts a day. But her
radical determination cannot be stemmed, and the truth cannot be fully
expressed in less than six posts. Again, I apologize to progressive forces
everywhere."

<radicaltimes at betterworld.net/lbotalk/sampson>

Yo-she

*Victory To Whoever Takes Charge In Iraq, So Long As They're Not Allied With
The US <anybodywilldo at iraqrev.com>
*Graduate Students Of Color Say "NO!" To Undergraduates Of No Color
<superiorpigment at raceisall.net>
*Campus Leninists Who Identify With Blowing Up Busses in Crowded Shopping
Areas <booom at noinnocents.org>