[lbo-talk] [Fwd: Jena Ignites a Movement: Report from Yesterday's Demonstration in Jena, Louisiana]

[ravi]

On 24 Sep, 2007, at 21:12 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
> Joseph Catron wrote:
>
>> And while a few kooks might claim that O.J.'s
>> acquittal was an anti-racist victory, nobody takes them seriously.
>
> O.J.'s acquittal wasn't all about O.J.  As Al
> Sharpton said at Johnnie Cochran's funeral, the cheering wasn't for  
> O.J:
>
>> "With all due respect to you brother Simpson, we
>> didn't clap when the acquittal of Simpson came
>> for O.J., we were clapping for Johnnie," the
>> Rev. Al Sharpton said in his eulogy. "We were
>> clapping because for decades our brothers, our
>> cousins, our uncles had to stand in the well
>> with no one to stand up for them. And finally a
>> black man came and said, if it don't fit – you must acquit.
>

Kooks like you and Sharpton should shut the fuck up. The central  
planners of the revolution have no time for such embarrassments. ;-)

	--ravi