[lbo-talk] Occupy the hood revisit

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Dec 16 12:48:03 PST 2011


On Dec 16, 2011, at 3:23 PM, c b wrote:


> To say there is Black non-participation is not accurate. Not only
> are there Black people at the main Occupations but several Occupy the
> Hoods, which have the name "Occupy" because they are participating in
> the OWS movement. There are fewer Black people criticizing the
> Occupation than white people. It is doing the work of the 1% to feed
> into the idea that Black people are somehow more standoffish from the
> Occupation than white people. Soon there will be a poll showing more
> support for the Occupation among Blacks than whites, mark my word.

You may be right. People are always going on about the whiteness of Occupy, but that's not my visual experience. When I interviewed Dorian Warren - who's been active in the People of Color group at OWS - and asked him about that, he dismissed the claim as wrong.

Doug



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