On Dec 31, 2007 12:52 PM, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Max wrote: > > I followed this a while back. She would stumble periodically into a > > tasteless remark, I think more out of insensitivity before the fact and > > unwillingness to admit a mistake after (understandable, in light of the > > attacks to which she was subjected). The upshot, unfortunately, is that > > she made herself too hard to keep defending.< > > Yeah, it seemed to me (from my superficial reading) that the presence > of the NBPP in her security entourage was akin to that of the Hell's > Angels at Altamont. > > It's also quite possible that the NBPP does not fit the ADL's > characterization as "perhaps the largest organized anti-Semitic and > racist Black hate group in America" > (http://www.adl.org/PresRele/ASUS_12/4869_12.htm). I remember doing > research on the 1968 NYC teachers' strike and finding that accusations > of Black anti-Semitism were grossly exaggerated (and perhaps even > invented) for political purposes, while accusations of anti-Semitism > are likely to be thrown at anyone who dares to criticize Israel. >
My mother was teaching in Bed-Stuy at the time and although she was somewhat of a pink diaper baby, hated SNCC & CORE with a passion... I dunno about the 'new' BPP. I walked the line in the late 60s in front of the 'Tombs' in support of the 'old' NY BPP, but I've seen a couple of issues of the new BPP newspaper, and AFAICT, they are not philosophically far removed from the current incarnation of the Nation Of Islam, whom I've never trusted (since the assassination of Malcolm X). As far as the so-called anti-defamation league... I just tell people the average ADL operative believes that a Jewish fingernail is worth more than an Arab life, therefore their opinion of (Enter name here) is irrelevant, misleading, and untrustworthy. Leigh
