> CB: This was initiated and planned over three months ago, before Rosa Parks
> died. I sent notices of this to this list. Note below the first post on this
> I sent to this list was dated September 24, 2005.
> Check the list LBO-Talk list archives, using "Rosa Parks" as your search
> item, and you will see that Workers World planned this way more than two
> weeks before the date; and the date of my post in the archives before Parks'
> death proves that Workers World did not opportunistically use Parks' death,
> but based on a good historical, radical precedent aimed to commemorate
> Comrade Rosa Parks' _ACTION_ for radical change on its fiftieth
> anniversary, and with a demo on Wallstreet ! Whaaatttt ? Shutup !!!
Workers World has a long history of tokenizing people of color and their dead leaders. In the past, WW has called protests in conjunction with the anniversaries associated with Malcolm X and MLK, Jr. WW is obsessed with street authenticity and is very proficient at tokenizing POCs it lures into its orbit, while race-baiting competitor groups.
Chuck