[lbo-talk] When racial politics go silly

[Joseph Catron]

"At AIPAC’s annual policy conference in May, the group acknowledged
delegates from a dozen historically black colleges. Speaking on the
conference’s plenary stage to an audience of several thousand, Alexis Crews,
an African-American student from Atlanta’s Spelman College, portrayed harsh
critics of Israel as also being assailants of black concerns, as she took on
the pro-Palestinian annual event that is known as Israeli Apartheid Week and
takes place on many campuses.

'How dare they use a word that has historic meaning for me?' Crews declared
..."
http://forward.com/articles/144558<http://forward.com/articles/144558/#ixzz1bFBrsUKj>

Right. How dare Willie Madisha, Winnie Mandela, and Desmond Tutu use the
word "apartheid" ...

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