[lbo-talk] a sampling of the WBAI "community"

[Doug Henwood]

There's a message board called Goodlight devoted to WBAI topics. It's 
mainly domianted by fevered speculations and toxic polemics. Here's 
one luscious sample 
<http://www.listenerforums.net/cgi-bin/issues_config.pl?read=48703>:

Stop attacks on the PD! Responsibility lies with GM Hardat.
Posted By: Brianna Johnson (4.236.219.97)
Date: Saturday, 4 March 2006, at 3:58 p.m.
Any shortcomings in this fundraising drive are solely the fault of 
the GM, Ms. Indra Hardat. JUC supporters have been waving the red 
flags about Ms. Hardat for months now. We have noted the 
contradiction of installing at a Black station a GM who is neither 
Black nor shares Black values, and in fact brings with her the values 
of the Crown. And we predicted that the conflict that would arise out 
of this contradiction was inevitable.
Now that the conflict is out in the open, the usual suspects attack 
our long-serving Black PD! Not that we should be surprised by such 
racist treachery (it being in their blood), but one would think that 
even redneck List-proggers and posters on the goodwhite board would 
figure out that responsibility lies with the General Manager, not the 
PD.

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Glossary

PD = Program Director, Bernard White
GM = General Manager (interim), Indra Hardat
JUC = Justice and Unity Coalition, the black-nationalist-flavored contingent

       that dominates WBAI governance
List-proggers = a rival coalition to JUC that plays the race game itself