> On Oct 26, 2009, at 7:22 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
>
>> So the great evil of this 'manifesto' is that it was a level-headed
>> look at the structural barriers for the involvement of people of
>> color, namely:
>
> A lot of this sort of agitation - this piece, Wise, Catalyst - focuses
> on racism on the left. It's as if these structural barriers are the
> fault of the organizers of Seattle and not American society. The
> emphasis is also always on race.
Yeah. If you went to an anti-war march full of middle-class hippies and loudly declared it to be somehow lacking in authenticity due to the absence of burly "working-class" types, you'd be treated as an annoying pest, even a reactionary. But if you instead attributed the lack of authenticity to the absence of people of color, somehow you've put your finger on an inexcusable failing of the organizers and weeks of workshopping would be required to rectify the error.
SA