I make the argument regardless of the community. As a matter of fact, I
thought this had come within the Black Radical Congress email group rather
than this one. Makes no difference to me. And as a matter of fairly
informed conjecture, I think a majority of the African American community
would agree with me in regard to Chavis and to the general consequences of
reactionary nationalist politics and ideology.
I won''t get into the notion you seem to harbor about the truth being
too much for certain folks to endure.
Carrol Cox wrote:
> John Woodford 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.
>
> Carrol
>
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