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

[c b]

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

^^^^
CB: Obama is a major advance for "the Black Left" or Black Leftists.
Ford's line puts him in the rear guard, not the vanguard of Black
people en masse.  It is a completely sectarian ultra-left line under
the faulty claim that Ford's thinking about Obama is in advance of
most Black people's thinking about Obama.   Events will prove this in
that Ford will have no mass "following" whatsoever.