Re: [Marxism] Background on Kwame Sombrau!

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Recent photos of Kwame here in Albany, NY.
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Re: [Marxism] Background on Kwame Sombrau!

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I am so saddened by the loss of comrade Kwame. He was a dear friend to me and 
my family for many years and a devoted distributor of Socialist Viewpoint until 
he became too ill to continue. He had an amazing memory for history—all of 
which he learned on his own by reading everything he could get his hands on. 

He was in his best form speaking extemporaneously—debating and street-corner 
speaking, for which he was arrested many times in New York. But one of the best 
things he did, in fact, one of the very best things I have ever seen on the 
great wasteland of TV, was the debate he and Fred Halstead had with William F. 
Buckley on his show, Firing Line, in 1968.*  Fred Halstead was the presidential 
candidate and Paul Boutelle was the Vice Presidential candidate for the 
Socialist Workers Party. (At that time, and until 1979, Kwame went by his given 
name, Paul Boutelle.) Kwame ruled the show! I truly believe this was one of the 
best moments on TV of all time. Be sure to watch it till the very end:

http://amodernmanifesto.tumblr.com/post/49309511725/william-f-buckley-conservative-douchebag-and

I will miss him very much. His contribution to the revolutionary, socialist 
workers movement was incalculable!

—Bonnie Weinstein

*In those days, when a TV show interviewed a major party candidate, they were 
also obligated to interview “minority candidates.” That’s how they got on the 
show. Buckley thought this would be a “piece of cake” interview for him. You 
can see it in his condescendingly smug demeanor at the beginning of the 
interview. It didn’t last long as you will see when you watch the interview. 
It’s the best comeuppance I’ve ever seen! You can hear that the audience went 
wild with applause!

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> On 5/5/16 6:58 AM, Anthony Brain via Marxism wrote:
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>> Kwame Somburu 1934-2016
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> Anthony is having email problems. He asked me to forward this:
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> met Kwame when I was 16 when Pat Brain (my Father) organised a big meeting of 
> 100 people discussing the dialectical inter-relationship between Black 
> Nationalism and the struggle for Socialism! Kwame remarked when he met me at 
> 16 that I knew a lot about American Trotskyist history. He thought even then 
> I was one of the more promising potential cadres of my generation!
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Re: [Marxism] Background on Kwame Sombrau!

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On 5/5/16 6:58 AM, Anthony Brain via Marxism wrote:



 Kwame Somburu 1934-2016


Anthony is having email problems. He asked me to forward this:

met Kwame when I was 16 when Pat Brain (my Father) organised a big 
meeting of 100 people discussing the dialectical inter-relationship 
between Black Nationalism and the struggle for Socialism! Kwame remarked 
when he met me at 16 that I knew a lot about American Trotskyist 
history. He thought even then I was one of the more promising potential 
cadres of my generation!



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[Marxism] Background on Kwame Sombrau!

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