[lbo-talk] Adolph Reed Reconsidered

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue May 28 06:53:07 PDT 2013


On May 28, 2013, at 9:43 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:


> I think, when we debated Adolph Reed a year or two ago the debate got off to
> the wrong foot by focusing too much on Tim Wise, WBAI cat fights, etc. Hence
> the debate from the beginning invoked a sense of "racism" that Reed was
> trying in a number of articles to deny. The article excerpted below is one
> of his more recent efforts, and I think defines the issues much more
> precisely than was the case with our earlier discussion. I have more to say
> myself but I'll just quote from the beginning of Reed's article here.

Yeah, I asked Adolph to write that piece actually. You may have noticed the publication venue. It's kind of weird that you think that earlier representations were inaccurate, considering that.

Doug



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