so, for my enlightenment, could you or someone else please tell me about these incidents in the news. as i said, i barely turn on a television or radio these days. i get my news, largely, from this list.
> " Everywhere is not WBAI, everyone
> is not Wise, and none of us critics can figure out who the audience
> is, or
> how this is helping "the left.""
>
>
> This is exactly why I avoided Shag's and Roberts original request for
> more
> specificity as to who was using race to distract from class. I have
> been
> around academic debates long enough to know an attempted evasion when
> I see
> one. First they ask for more specificity, then they claim that your
> examples are not representative of everyone. Who ever said WBM or
> Doug was
> talking about everyone and everywhere. Who is the general readership
> of NLR
> and LRBs ? That is probably the target audience, left-liberals with
> plenty
> of power. Folks who are on the fence between thinking that class is
> the
> main problem or whether what they have been hearing ad nauseum- that
> the
> problem is the racism and if they don't agree then they too are racist
> and
> part of the problem- is what is goin' on. I would think this would be
> his
> target audience, not the community organizers.
>
> The fact that people generally think he is on to something but
> disagree with
> his tactics, seems to me to be overcome by the fact that he is
> probably
> making most people on this list think about the relationship bettween
> class
> and race. Which is a good thing. I personally don't like the tactic
> of
> telling people that the main reason that there will be no decent
> health care
> reform is because 'we are a very racist society" (Bill Maher), rather
> than
> talking about the fact that Obama is in the pocket of the health care
> industry and major pharma (along with a lot of the rest of the Dems).
> That
> is what I think a bad tactic is. If a fella needs to get polemic to
> get
> folks to think, so be it.
>
> Brad
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