>The main question is whether Mr. Guma is an effective and tenacious
>administrator. The Pacifica network, particularly WBAI, is dire need
>of . I have done battle with the race essentialists, known in
>Pacificaland as the 'Justice and Unity Caucus' for several years
>now. I sympathize with some of their ideological tendencies, but
>part ways with them on governance questions, where many of them seem
>to think that Pacifica should be run rather like Robert Mugabe's
>latter day Zimbabwe (he is a hero to many of them), in other words,
>to have its management infrastructure lubricated by a rancid stew of
>corruption with generous dollops of grandiose radical rhetoric
>thrown in to disguise the stench. To the extent that the race
>essentialists are complaining about Mr. Guma, it probably has more
>to do with their fears that he might actually be an honest man - and
>only incidentally a white one.
I'm inclined to agree with this, though I know nothing about Guma. I do know that some questionable sorts at WBAI are alarmed, which could be a good thing, though you never know.
Doug