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> On Aug 19, 2011, at 9:14 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> > The chief symptom of racism on the left is the failure to take seriusly
> the intellectual and theoretical importance of the Black Panthers.
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> A group that essentially disappeared before half the U.S. pop was born?
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> Doug
Like most radical labor unions, Frankfurt School scholars, Karl Marx and a raft of other folks, no? You can't possibly be arguing that actions, groups and intellectual efforts that have been seriously outside the mainstream since 1978 - I just chose a date - are unimportant.