On Jan 27, 2007, at 8:19 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> Americans never had "a class-based politics" independent of white
> supremacy, so they couldn't have taken flight from what they didn't
> have.
Never is a slight overstatement. There have been moments - some of the populists, for example. Not all, for sure, but some. Recalling that is a nice antidote to hopelessness, which is always very tempting.
Doug