[lbo-talk] The guy who 'blocked' John Lewis

[Carrol Cox]

Blacks _at present_ have, on the whole, defined their "self-=interest" 
as (in the words of Glen Ford) "building a wall around the Black 
Brother" to fend off criticism. Ford calls this a major problem for the 
Black Left -- which makes it a major problem for all leftists. 
Unfortunately there is little white leftists can do about it; we can 
only try not to make it more difficult for Black Agenda and similar 
groups to do their work. The Black attendance at anti-war rallies has 
always been small (the one exception in my experience being a march in 
1969 for which the Panthers also organized), but it reached a low at the 
recent March & Rally in Chicago. We had a Black speaker: from the Black 
Agenda. He pointed to the "Obama Problem" as central to that fact.

Carrol

On 10/14/2011 5:02 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> On 10/14/2011 4:50 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
>>
>> On Oct 14, 2011, at 5:41 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
>>
>>> Black interests
>>
>> You write as if those are self-evident.
>
> They are not at all self-evident. But it is self-evident who will define
> them: Those Blacks who do or don't 'join' a left movement.
>
> Carrol
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