Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> > A descent into financial corruption, separatism, abuse and
> > exploitation of women, neighborhood
> > orcommunity control by would-be mob bosses running undemocratic
> > organizations, mumbo jumbo
> > religiosity, and petit-bourgeois nationalism would be retrogressive
> > for Black Americans in general.
> > that's my opinion. Chavis was a better man when he was standing up to
> > the racists in North
> > Carolina.
>
> This is probably true -- but expressing it here or in other white
> forums probably does not contribute to establishing its truth
> within the black community, and the post as a whole expresses
> an attitude which will make the fight (within the black liberation
> movement) against "retrograde" versions of nationalism more
> difficult.
This is nonsense. Why on earth do you call Crashlist a 'white forum'? More than half
our subscribers come from countries like Turkey, Russia, China, India, Africa and
Latin America. Some important US contributors here are actually American Indians,
American Africans or other people of colour. I myself am Welsh, a nation which has a
bitter 600-hundred year struggle for survival against Anglo-Saxonry and which has
fought to keep alive its own langauge and culture. I bitterly resent the black
exceptionalism and political condescension behind your attitude. It has no place on
a list which is above all dedicated to finding new forms of UNITY.
In any case, it is preposterous to create a system of intellectual apartheid around
the 'black liberation movement'. Debate is universal and has no arbitrary
boundaries, and anyway there are no thought police on THIS list.
Mark Jones
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