and they do jack? when they ostensibly have a stake, because they are black and people of color themselves?
for fuck's sake. I actually signed up to volunteer last week and out of the two dozen , only one of them did anything. he canvassed once. wow.
i hope they are aberrations. it'd be nice to see something going on. but, this is what i'm surrounded with and this is why I'm not at all feelin' it about this so-called "movement" -- at least as it's expressed among folks who are from the professional-managerial strate.
they are nice, well-meaning people. I try hard to understand the homophobia and the hatred of poor blacks, etc. But I'm sorry, if they are the kind of people who are in this movement and they cheer at the things i listed below, I can't see it as especially progressive.
i know people via the internet who don't share these views. but from what i can see, they aren't part of any movement either. they sit on their ass and blog and go to school and think that typing blog posts is activism.
At 05:34 PM 11/6/2008, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
>i don't know that i disagree, but i don't know that you're distinguishing
>sufficiently between the movement part, which i think is largely
>progressive, and the part that's the "undecideds" he won over. if the
>movement part can continue to be deployed to bring the middle aboard for
>progressive policy, that will be good. if the movement part can maintain
>sufficient independence to resist signing off on everything, that might be a
>miracle. but it would nevertheless be good.