--- Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Whatever "1970s-style indentity politics" means,
[Ws:] Black power politics, critised, inter alia, by Adolph Reed.
how
> does it apply to
> what Ford is talking about, which is the
> longstanding importance of
> black activism to progressive politics in the U.S.?
[Ws:] That there is a need for a new form of black activism that moves away from black identity politics - which was the hallmark of black power politics mentioned above - and toward issues that affect all Americans, such as health care, housing/credit, urban development, transportation, education etc. even though some of them may affect blacks more than whites. I think Obama is trying to move in that direction, and that is more encouraging than the old politics of the black ghetto.
Wojtek
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