On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Doug Henwood <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mar 5, 2010, at 10:45 AM, Jim Devine wrote: > >> Someone should mention the content of Cockburn's (and Silverstein's) >> critique of the Southern Poverty Law Center. It's that it exaggerates >> the prevalence of racism in the South in order to raise funds for its >> own leaders. > > And they have lots of funds! Also, they won't touch death penalty > challenges, because that doesn't work so well in fundraising. Too > controversial. So they stick with scaring Yankees with tales of a resurgent > Klan and neo-Nazis on the march. That's gold in the mails.
It seemed like Cockburn's main criticism was that they were hoarding the money raised from donations instead of actually using it to combat hate groups like they claim to do.. -raghu. -- "I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation." _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
