[lbo-talk] Occupy the hood: A black perspective on occupywallstreet

[Carrol Cox]

I usually disagree with Doug on matters of race & the left, but I think he's
essentially right here. "Elephant in the room" is a rather odd phase to use
in respect to a matter that everyone concerned has discussed and discussed
and wrestled with from the very beginning; in fact for 50 years. It's a
fact. The enemy scored a coup over us when they elected Obama. I wonder what
Clinton would have done to the woma's movement.

Race remains at the center of working-class politics, but this particular
fact is no elephant. It's not even a mouse.

Carrol

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occupywallstreet

Well, yeah, but what's the point of this exactly? I'm guessing that most OWS
participants are more aware of what cops are like than the average Joe. That
aside, whites shouldn't complain because things could be worse, i.e., they
could be black? Some sort of one-upmanship? Please enlighten.

Doug

On Dec 14, 2011, at 1:58 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:


> Exactly.
> 
> Joanna
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 6:00 PM,  <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Kinda lame, and the elephant in the room: black people's experience with
law enforcement and prisons is not even mentioned.
> 
> As a tweet put it:
> 
> "Oh?  The NYPD are treating you badly?  Violent for no reason?
> Weird." - Black People
> 
> -- 
> Andy
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