[Marxism] Finance firm fires Central Park Karen for 'racism' - New York Daily News

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[Marxism] The Day My Coworkers and I Chose Our Survival Over Our Supervisor

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[Marxism] Audubon Statement on Incident in Central Park’s Ramble | Audubon

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Re: [Marxism] Class struggle in the New Testament | Robert Myles | Culture Matters

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I find the work of Marxist historian Richard A. Horsley, who has written many 
books about Jesus as an emerging political revolutionary hanged by a Roman 
state worried about rebellion in Palestine, to be quite worthwhile.  Three of 
Horsley's notable books are The Message and the Kingdom (1997, with Neil Asher 
Silberman); Jesus and Empire: The Kingdom of God and the New World Disorder 
(2003), and Jesus and the Politics of Roman Palestine (2014).  Wythe

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[Marxism] Survivor of Racist Central Park Incident Is a Pioneer of Queer Representation in Comics | them.

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[Marxism] Bill DiFazio

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The Marxist sociologist, William DiFazio, died March 10th of 2020 at the age of 
72 from complications related to diabetes. I met Bill in 1975, when we were 
both students at the CUNY Graduate Center. We remained friends for the next 45 
years. 

 

Bill Difazio wrote three books:

Longshoremen: Community and Resistance On The Brooklyn Waterfront 1985, The 
Jobless Future (with Stanley Aronowitz) 1995, and Ordinary Poverty: A Little 
Food and Cold Shelter 2005.

He hosted a popular radio show, City Watch, on WBAI from 2000-2016, where he 
interviewed community activists as well as radical intellectuals. There is a 
Wikipedia page for Bill at: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_DiFazio

 

Bill contributed to a number of journals, including Social Text and Situations, 
where he served on the editorial board.  At the time of his death, he was 
writing a book to be called, Conversations in Diners: Ordinary People and The 
Crisis in Capitalism.

 

Bill DiFazio was a popular teacher at St. Johns in Queens, New York. He served 
as Chair of the Sociology Department at St. Johns for six years. He also 
volunteered at a food program run by St. Johns in Brooklyn for several years, 
where he did the field work for, Ordinary Poverty.  



Bill DiFazio is survived by his wife, Susan Heller, a Brooklyn artist, and his 
daughter, Liegia DiFazio, an attorney in Atlanta. 

 

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[Marxism] 4 officers fired after man dies in police custody in Minneapolis - StarTribune.com

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The last name of the cop with the knee on the victim's neck is Chauvin. 
How appropriate.


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[Marxism] Class struggle in the New Testament | Robert Myles | Culture Matters

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[Marxism] Amy Cooper Knew Exactly What She Was Doing | HuffPost

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Amy Cooper lost her dog and possibly her job. Christian Cooper, the 
Black man she called the cops on, could have lost his life


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Re: [Marxism] Dinner Party, Becky: Grindhouse masterpieces on virtual cinema | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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On 5/26/20 1:21 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:


Although the two films under consideration here are obviously not 
political, I am taking the trouble to review them out of solidarity with 
an industry that it on the ropes, just like restaurants, health clubs 
and beauty salons. Since the movie industry is so gargantuan, you might 
ask why I am bothering. It is because the two films are very smart, 
indie films that probably cost $5 million each to make. Originally 
intended for theatrical release, they are part of the “virtual cinema” 
offerings I am covering until the pandemic winds down.


Just heard from the publicist that there's a review embargo on "Becky". 
Will put the review back up on June 1 with a reminder.


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[Marxism] Man ‘Killed By Minneapolis Police’ Is Identified As Civil Rights Attorney Ben Crump Steps In

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[Marxism] Dinner Party, Becky: Grindhouse masterpieces on virtual cinema | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Although the two films under consideration here are obviously not 
political, I am taking the trouble to review them out of solidarity with 
an industry that it on the ropes, just like restaurants, health clubs 
and beauty salons. Since the movie industry is so gargantuan, you might 
ask why I am bothering. It is because the two films are very smart, 
indie films that probably cost $5 million each to make. Originally 
intended for theatrical release, they are part of the “virtual cinema” 
offerings I am covering until the pandemic winds down.


Just by coincidence, “Dinner Party” and “Becky” share the same type of 
main character, a female seeking revenge. In “Dinner Party”, it is the 
wife of a playwright seeking funding for a Broadway production from 
super-wealthy people living in a mansion in the countryside. Little did 
the couple realize that they were going to be victims of a cannibalistic 
ritual performed by a devil-worshipping cult. After her husband’s head 
has been chopped off, she takes matters into her own hands. In “Becky”, 
it is a 13-year old girl who takes on a quartet of neo-Nazi escaped 
prisoners who have already killer her father. To put it succinctly, it 
is similar plot-wise to “Home Alone” but with gory attacks mounted by 
the heroine rather than childish pranks by Macaulay Culkin. Both films 
had my wife and I floating on air after they were done. We both love 
leftist politics and horror movies, so there.


full: 
https://louisproyect.org/2020/05/26/dinner-party-becky-grindhouse-masterpieces-on-virtual-cinema/


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[Marxism] Thou Shalt Not Kill

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Thou Shalt Not Kill
by Kenneth Rexroth

A Memorial for Dylan Thomas

I
They are murdering all the young men.
For half a century now, every day,
They have hunted them down and killed them.
They are killing them now.
At this minute, all over the world,
They are killing the young men.
They know ten thousand ways to kill them.
Every year they invent new ones.
In the jungles of Africa,
In the marshes of Asia,
In the deserts of Asia,
In the slave pens of Siberia,
In the slums of Europe,
In the nightclubs of America,
The murderers are at work.


They are stoning Stephen,
They are casting him forth from every city in the world.
Under the Welcome sign,
Under the Rotary emblem,
On the highway in the suburbs,
His body lies under the hurling stones.
He was full of faith and power.
He did great wonders among the people.
They could not stand against his wisdom.
They could not bear the spirit with which he spoke.
He cried out in the name
Of the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness.
They were cut to the heart.
They gnashed against him with their teeth.
They cried out with a loud voice.
They stopped their ears.
They ran on him with one accord.
They cast him out of the city and stoned him.
The witnesses laid down their clothes
At the feet of a man whose name was your name—
You.


You are the murderer.
You are killing the young men.
You are broiling Lawrence on his gridiron.
When you demanded he divulge
The hidden treasures of the spirit,
He showed you the poor.
You set your heart against him.
You seized him and bound him with rage.
You roasted him on a slow fire.
His fat dripped and spurted in the flame.
The smell was sweet to your nose.
He cried out,
“I am cooked on this side,
Turn me over and eat,
You
Eat of my flesh.”


You are murdering the young men.
You are shooting Sebastian with arrows.
He kept the faithful steadfast under persecution.
First you shot him with arrows.
Then you beat him with rods.
Then you threw him in a sewer.
You fear nothing more than courage.
You who turn away your eyes
At the bravery of the young men.


You,
The hyena with polished face and bow tie,
In the office of a billion dollar
Corporation devoted to service;
The vulture dripping with carrion,
Carefully and carelessly robed in imported tweeds,
Lecturing on the Age of Abundance;
The jackal in double-breasted gabardine,
Barking by remote control,
In the United Nations;
The vampire bat seated at the couch head,
Notebook in hand, toying with his decerebrator;
The autonomous, ambulatory cancer,
The Superego in a thousand uniforms;
You, the finger man of behemoth,
The murderer of the young men.

II
What happened to Robinson,
Who used to stagger down Eighth Street,
Dizzy with solitary gin?
Where is Masters, who crouched in
His law office for ruinous decades?
Where is Leonard who thought he was
A locomotive? And Lindsay,
Wise as a dove, innocent
As a serpent, where is he?
Timor mortis conturbat me.


What became of Jim Oppenheim?
Lola Ridge alone in an
Icy furnished room? Orrick Johns,
Hopping into the surf on his
One leg? Elinor Wylie
Who leaped like Kierkegaard?
Sara Teasdale, where is she?
Timor mortis conturbat me.


Where is George Sterling, that tame fawn?
Phelps Putnam who stole away?
Jack Wheelwright who couldn’t cross the bridge?
Donald Evans with his cane and
Monocle, where is he?
Timor mortis conturbat me.


John Gould Fletcher who could not
Unbreak his powerful heart?
Bodenheim butchered in stinking
Squalor? Edna Millav who took
Her last straight whiskey? Genevieve
Who loved so much; where is she?
Timor mortis conturbat me.


Harry who didn’t care at all?
Hart who went back to the sea?
Timor mortis conturbat me.


Where is Sol Funaroff?
What happened to Potamkin?
Isidor Schneider? Claude McKay?
Countee Cullen? Clarence Weinstock?
Who animates their corpses today?
Timor mortis conturbat me.


Where is Ezra, that noisy man?
Where is Larsson whose poems were prayers?
Where is Charles Snider, that gentle
Bitter boy? Carnevali,
What became of him?
Carol who was so beautiful, where is she?
Timor mortis conturbat me.

III
Was their end noble and tragic,
Like the mask of a tyrant?
Like Agamemnon’s secret golden face?
Indeed it was not. Up all night
In the fo’c’sle, bemused and beaten,
Bleeding at the rectum, in his
Pocket a review by the one
Colleague he respected, “If he
Really means what these poems
Pretend to say, he has only
One way out—.” Into the
Hot acrid Caribbean sun,
Into the acrid, transparent,
Smoky sea. Or another, lice in his
Armpits and crotch, garbage littered
On the floor, gray greasy rags on
The bed. “I killed them because they
Were dirty, stinking Communists.
I should get a medal.” Again,
Another, Simenon fo

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[Marxism] Zoom and Gloom: Universities in the Age of COVID-19 - Los Angeles Review of Books

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[Marxism] A Clean Break | Clare Busch

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JERRY SIMON HAS SEVEN KIDS that he and his fiancé provide for. Exposing 
his children to coronavirus is a constant worry. His coworkers have the 
same nagging concern. Simon added, “We have one guy. He’s a new 
granddaddy. He has never even held his grandbaby.”


As he talks, Simon leans against a car with a simple sign that reads, “I 
Am a Man.” The slogan is from the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike when 
African American workers demanded better pay and safer conditions. 
Simon, too, is a sanitation worker. He works in New Orleans where he’s 
known as a “hopper.” He and the other men lug ninety-five-gallon garbage 
cans into trucks every day except Sunday.


Since May 5, the hoppers working for Metro Service Group have been 
striking. Metro is a private, multi-pronged company offering industrial 
project management, construction, and waste management services 
throughout the Southeast. Because the hoppers are contractors to city 
contractors, neither the city nor Metro want to claim full 
responsibility for the hoppers’ work conditions even as they say those 
conditions are safe.


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[Marxism] Meet the bisexual, black cabaret dancer and spy who dated Frida Kahlo and helped defeat the Nazis in France

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[Marxism] States of Emergency, Metaphors of Virus, and COVID-19

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(Somehow I've managed to get through life without reading a single word 
written by Giorgio Agamben, an Italian philosopher. I guess I haven't 
been missing anything.)


With the COVID-19 pandemic increasing in severity by the day, 
governments across the world have invoked viral metaphors to effect 
emergency legislation, in the process clamping down on civil liberties. 
In such a circumstance, what can the work of those who have studied 
liberal regimes' propensity to make the state of exception the rule, 
such as Giorgio Agamben and Carl Schmitt, offer to us – if anything at all?


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[Marxism] CUNY Faculty Organize Against Layoffs and Tuition Hikes | Left Voice

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[Marxism] The Backward Logic of Austerity Threatens America’s Most Vibrant Campus

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NY Times Op-Ed, May 26, 2020, 5:00 a.m. E
The Backward Logic of Austerity Threatens America’s Most Vibrant Campus
CUNY must be saved from needless cuts.
By Ben Lerner

Mr. Lerner is a writer and a professor of English at Brooklyn College.

Last month the administration at Brooklyn College, part of the City 
University of New York, announced that — in anticipation of a coming 
budget crisis — departments must reduce their course offerings by 25 
percent. This will mean firing large numbers of adjunct professors, some 
of whom will lose their health insurance, in the middle of a pandemic. 
(Mass firings have already started at other CUNY campuses, 450 to date 
at John Jay alone; they could happen at Brooklyn any day.) Remaining 
classes will then swell, which is bad for in-person education, but worse 
if classes remain online, as anybody who has tried to teach on Zoom can 
attest. The administration has said the projected savings from 
terminating adjuncts and ballooning classes at Brooklyn College would be 
$1.4 million. On the scale of New York State’s budget, the system’s main 
funding source, that’s a rounding error; for our adjuncts and our 
students, it’s a disaster. After years of being brutalized by Albany, 
CUNY has apparently so thoroughly internalized the backward logic of 
austerity that it responds to crisis by attacking itself.


Can I skip the part where I drive home the importance of public 
education by highlighting a brilliant student and what she’s achieved 
despite economic hardship? I know and admire scores of such students, 
but this isn’t only about the stars. It’s about the commons, the fact 
that an outstanding public education should be available to everyone, in 
New York and beyond. CUNY is the nation’s largest urban education 
system; its 275,000 students are spread across 25 campuses. Brooklyn 
College, like the rest of CUNY, crackles with energy and intelligence; 
its diversity represents a wealth that transcends any fiscal metric; 
that’s why it is, despite decades of disinvestment from the state, the 
most vibrant campus I know, here or abroad.


It also largely runs on underpaid adjuncts (who are often graduate 
students). In recent weeks, these adjuncts and their students have 
struggled valiantly to move the university online, as Zoom classes 
become sites not only for learning but also for mutual aid. (The 
correlation of Covid-19 deaths with race and class is well documented; 
the CUNY student body is around 30 percent Latinx; 25 percent black; 21 
percent Asian; and 23 percent white, many of whom are white immigrants. 
Nearly a third of our students at Brooklyn have sick family members; 
many are in mourning.) CUNY adjunct faculty members and their students 
are often the city’s essential workers, stocking the grocery stores or 
driving Ubers or ambulances (is an Uber ambulance next for the 
privatized city — or is that already here?) while caring for older and 
younger family members. And then they show up to take or teach the 
chemistry or composition class, to reassert with every virtual meeting 
the actual stakes of living and learning together.


Austerity is powerful people saying “we’ll have to endure painful cuts” 
when “we” means “everybody but us.” In the coming months, CUNY might 
well be told by Albany to slash its payrolls and compromise its classes. 
At that point, the CUNY leadership, along with our strong union and 
student activists, along with anybody who cares about the city, should 
fight back. It should demand that Gov. Andrew Cuomo increase taxes on 
the wealthy, issue bonds the Federal Reserve will buy, or otherwise find 
ways to make our city university system a priority. In early February, a 
poll conducted for the American Federation of Teachers found that some 
90 percent of New Yorkers support taxing the wealthy to raise public 
revenue. Democrats control both houses of the State Legislature and the 
executive. The rhetoric of austerity is as empty as the luxury towers we 
pass by on our socially distanced walks.


The adjuncts I work with typically have — or at least they had — several 
jobs in addition to their own teaching; how else to survive in a city 
from which all but the very rich are increasingly priced out? And still 
these adjuncts are spending unpaid extra hours with their students, 
standing with them in this disastrous time, trying to remind them of 
other times and human possibilities through the study of a poem or work 
of political theory or a strand of DNA. The CUNY administration should 
be asking how it can best support these important teachers now. Let’s 
start by not firing them.


This pandemic has made 

[Marxism] Chiang and Mao

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*Today's selection -- from **Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister** by
Jung Chang. **In* the late 1940s, Chiang Kai-shek's forces were engaged in
a war with Mao Zedong's communist forces to establish who would rule China.
Chiang had the decided advantage, but lost that advantage in a series of
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[Marxism] A black birdwatcher asked a white woman to leash her dog in Central Park. She called the police instead.

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Washington Post, May 26, 2020 at 7:36 a.m. EDT
A black birdwatcher asked a white woman to leash her dog in Central 
Park. She called the police instead.

By Teo Armus

Christian Cooper was birdwatching deep in the woods of Manhattan’s 
Central Park when he noticed a rogue cocker spaniel digging up the 
shrubbery around him.


Many of the birds he spots come for the dense plants, so he approached 
the dog’s owner early on Monday with a request: Could she leash up the 
canine, as the park rules required?


Amy Cooper said she would be calling the police instead.

“I’m going to tell them there’s an African American man threatening my 
life,” the white woman told him, pulling out her iPhone and dialing 911.


Less than 24 hours later after a video of their exchange went online, 
she has lost her dog, her anonymity, and temporarily, her job — the 
latest incident in a long, too-familiar pattern of white people calling 
the police on black people for any number of everyday activities: 
Barbecuing. Playing golf. Swimming at a pool.


Time to add a new outdoor pastime to that list: Birdwatching.

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“I don’t think there’s an African American person in America who hasn’t 
experienced something like this at some point,” Christian Cooper, a 
57-year-old science editor, told The Washington Post in an interview. “I 
don’t shy away from confronting the scofflaw when I see it. Otherwise, 
the park would be unusable — not just to us birders but to anybody who 
enjoys the beauty."


Amid the pandemic, people are paying more attention to tweets. And not 
the Twitter kind.


Christian Cooper — who is not related to Amy — had gotten up early on 
Memorial Day to head to the Ramble, a heavily wooded section of Central 
Park designed to resemble a wild garden. With its rocky outcrops and 
thick canopy, the area makes for an especially inviting stopover for 
birds on their northward migration, he said.


An avid birder since childhood, Cooper had been making daily trips in 
recent weeks to peek at the wildfowl stopping by for some refuge from 
the urban sprawl. In recent weeks, scarlet tanagers, ovenbirds, and the 
especially elusive mourning warblers had all sought out the avian oasis.


The novel coronavirus shut down the city this spring along with its busy 
dog runs. Authorities wanted to ensure that pets’ humans were staying 
six feet apart, and the Ramble — already an occasional target for loose 
puppies — became a canine playground.


On a nearly daily basis, he had seen unleashed pooches digging up the 
soil, ruining the delicate habitat and disturbing the birds. He had 
often asked unaware owners to restrain their pets, sometimes on camera, 
he said, and he carried around some dog treats for this very purpose. 
Monday morning was no different.


Around 7:30 a.m., he spotted rowdy, 2-year-old Henry grazing through the 
brush, as his human, an investment banker in yoga pants and a face mask, 
was standing right by a sign saying all dogs must be leashed.


When Christian Cooper asked her to follow the rules, she refused. He 
keeps dog treats on hand for noncompliant pet owners, he said, and tried 
to toss one to the dog.


As he started recording, she threatened to call the police.

At that point, he told The Post, he had only one option. “I can be 
racially intimidated and kowtow to her,” he said, but “I’m not going to 
participate in my own dehumanization."


Central Park this morning: This woman's dog is tearing through the 
plantings in the Ramble. ME: Ma'am, dogs in the...


Posted by Christian Cooper on Monday, May 25, 2020
“Please call the cops,” he said on video. “Please tell them whatever 
you’d like.”


She did, assuming an increasingly loud voice over the phone that to some 
on social media made her sound as if she was being physically attacked. 
In the meantime, she wrapped a blue leash around Henry, seemingly 
choking the yelping dog before clipping it on.


A spokesman for the New York Police Department told The Post that 
officers responded to a report of an assault in the Ramble at 8:10 a.m. 
Monday. When they arrived on the scene, they found only a woman and 
issued no summonses and made no arrests.


Amy Cooper did not immediately respond to a call and email requesting 
comment from The Post. But speaking to WNBC, she offered an apology to 
Christian Cooper and his family.


“It was unacceptable and I humbly and fully apologize to everyone who’s 
seen that video, everyone that’s been offended,” she told the TV station 
Monday evening. “Everyone who thinks of me in a

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As our group discussed in Monthly Review, China bears much, but not all, 
responsibility for the emergence of COVID-19.


The U.S. and Europe played definitional roles themselves in funding the 
deforestation and development that this century led to the emergence of 
H1N1 (2009), Ebola Makona, H5N2, H5Nx, and Zika outside China. And many 
an influenza and SARS in China proper. Indeed, in opposition to mutual 
accusations, many of these outbreaks were joint productions.


As late Giovanni Arrighi and early John Gulick put it, the two centers 
of capital, competing brothers, are foundationally integrated, sharing 
transnational supply lines, foreign direct investment, interlocking 
directorates, and a debt co-dependency during what appears a bout of 
common ecological collapse. Even the kind of dirty break in polarities 
of accumulation world-systems theory predicts ain't a done deal.


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[Marxism] The Covid-19 Conspiracies of German Neo-Nazis - CounterPunch.org

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[Marxism] Opinion | Why the Coronavirus Is Killing African Americans - The New York Times

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It's typical of the intellectual/moral bankruptcy of so many American
academics that they were confused by her viewpoint.


Why African-Americans are disproportionately dying of the Covid-19 virus –
It’s not obesity, it’s slavery

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/opinion/coronavirus-race-obesity.html

By Sabrina Strings

Dr. Strings is an associate professor of sociology at the University of
California at Irvine

· May 25, 2020



About five years ago, I was invited to sit in on a meeting about health in
the African-American community. Several important figures in the fields of
public health and economics were present. A freshly minted Ph.D., I felt
strangely like an interloper. I was also the only black person in the room.



One of the facilitators introduced me to the other participants and said
something to the effect of “Sabrina, what do you think? Why are black
people sick?”



It was a question asked in earnest. Some of the experts had devoted their
entire careers to addressing questions surrounding racial health
inequities. Years of research, and in some instances failed interventions,
had left them baffled. *Why are black people so sick?*



My answer was swift and unequivocal.

“Slavery.”



My colleagues looked befuddled as they tried to come to terms with my reply.

I meant what I said: The era of slavery was when white Americans determined
that black Americans needed only the bare necessities, not enough to keep
them optimally safe and healthy. It set in motion black people’s diminished
access to healthy foods, safe working conditions, medical treatment and a
host of other social inequities that negatively impact health.



This message is particularly important in a moment when African-Americans
have experienced the highest rates of severe complications and death from
the coronavirus and “obesity” has surfaced as an explanation. The cultural
narrative that black people’s weight is a harbinger of disease and death
has long served as a dangerous distraction from the real sources of
inequality, and it’s happening again.



Reliable data are hard to come by, but available analyses show that on
average, the rate of black fatalities is 2.4 times that of whites with
Covid-19. In states including Michigan, Kansas and Wisconsin and in
Washington, D.C., that ratio jumps
 to five to seven
black people dying of Covid-19 complications for every one white death.

Despite the lack of clarity surrounding these findings, one interpretation
of these disparities that has gained traction is the idea that black people
are unduly obese
(currently
defined as a body mass index greater than 30) which is seen as a driver of
other chronic illnesses and is believed to put black people at high risk
for serious complications from Covid-19.



These claims have received intense media attention, despite the fact that
scientists haven’t been able to sufficiently explain the link between
obesity and Covid-19. According to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, 42.2  percent of
white Americans and 49.6 percent of African-Americans are obese.
Researchers have yet to clarify how a 7 percentage-point disparity in
obesity prevalence translates to a 240 percent-700 percent disparity in
fatalities .



Experts have raised questions about the rush to implicate obesity, and
especially “severe obesity” (B.M.I. greater than 40), as a factor in
coronavirus complications. An article in the medical journal The Lancet

evaluated
Britain’s inclusion of obesity as a risk factor for coronavirus
complications and retorted, “To date, no available data show adverse
Covid-19 outcomes specifically in people with a BMI of 40 kg/m2.” The
authors concluded, “The scarcity of information regarding the increased
risk of illness for people with a BMI higher than 40 kg/m2 has led to
ambiguity and might increase anxiety, given that these individuals have now
been categorised as vulnerable to severe illness if they contract Covid-19.”



Promoting strained associations between race, body size, and complications
from this little-understood disease has served to reinforce an image of
black people as wholly swept up in sensuous pleasures like eating and
drinking, which supposedly makes our unruly bodies repositories of
preventable weight-related illnesses. The attitudes 

[Marxism] Opinion | Why the Coronavirus Is Killing African Americans - The New York Times

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> It's typical of the intellectual/moral bankruptcy of so many American
> academics that they were confused by her viewpoint.
>
>
> Why African-Americans are disproportionately dying of the Covid-19 virus –
> It’s not obesity, it’s slavery
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/opinion/coronavirus-race-obesity.html
>
> By Sabrina Strings
>
> Dr. Strings is an associate professor of sociology at the University of
> California at Irvine
>
> · May 25, 2020
>
>
>
> About five years ago, I was invited to sit in on a meeting about health in
> the African-American community. Several important figures in the fields of
> public health and economics were present. A freshly minted Ph.D., I felt
> strangely like an interloper. I was also the only black person in the room.
>
>
>
> One of the facilitators introduced me to the other participants and said
> something to the effect of “Sabrina, what do you think? Why are black
> people sick?”
>
>
>
> It was a question asked in earnest. Some of the experts had devoted their
> entire careers to addressing questions surrounding racial health
> inequities. Years of research, and in some instances failed interventions,
> had left them baffled. *Why are black people so sick?*
>
>
>
> My answer was swift and unequivocal.
>
> “Slavery.”
>
>
>
> My colleagues looked befuddled as they tried to come to terms with my
> reply.
>
> I meant what I said: The era of slavery was when white Americans
> determined that black Americans needed only the bare necessities, not
> enough to keep them optimally safe and healthy. It set in motion black
> people’s diminished access to healthy foods, safe working conditions,
> medical treatment and a host of other social inequities that negatively
> impact health.
>
>
>
> This message is particularly important in a moment when African-Americans
> have experienced the highest rates of severe complications and death from
> the coronavirus and “obesity” has surfaced as an explanation. The cultural
> narrative that black people’s weight is a harbinger of disease and death
> has long served as a dangerous distraction from the real sources of
> inequality, and it’s happening again.
>
>
>
> Reliable data are hard to come by, but available analyses show that on
> average, the rate of black fatalities is 2.4 times that of whites with
> Covid-19. In states including Michigan, Kansas and Wisconsin and in
> Washington, D.C., that ratio jumps
>  to five to seven
> black people dying of Covid-19 complications for every one white death.
>
> Despite the lack of clarity surrounding these findings, one interpretation
> of these disparities that has gained traction is the idea that black
> people are unduly obese
> (currently
> defined as a body mass index greater than 30) which is seen as a driver of
> other chronic illnesses and is believed to put black people at high risk
> for serious complications from Covid-19.
>
>
>
> These claims have received intense media attention, despite the fact that
> scientists haven’t been able to sufficiently explain the link between
> obesity and Covid-19. According to the Centers for Disease Control and
> Prevention, 42.2  percent of
> white Americans and 49.6 percent of African-Americans are obese.
> Researchers have yet to clarify how a 7 percentage-point disparity in
> obesity prevalence translates to a 240 percent-700 percent disparity in
> fatalities .
>
>
>
> Experts have raised questions about the rush to implicate obesity, and
> especially “severe obesity” (B.M.I. greater than 40), as a factor in
> coronavirus complications. An article in the medical journal The Lancet
> 
>  evaluated
> Britain’s inclusion of obesity as a risk factor for coronavirus
> complications and retorted, “To date, no available data show adverse
> Covid-19 outcomes specifically in people with a BMI of 40 kg/m2.” The
> authors concluded, “The scarcity of information regarding the increased
> risk of illness for people with a BMI higher than 40 kg/m2 has led to
> ambiguity and might increase anxiety, given that these individuals have now
> been categorised as vulnerable to severe illness if they contract Covid-19.”
>
>
>
> Promoting strained associations between race, body size, and complications
> from this little-understood disease has served to reinforce an image of
> black

[Marxism] Counterpunch keeps the nonsense on coming

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Here we have Rob Urie continuing the nonsense about "Russiagate". Rob Urie
is one of those who is so obsessed with opposition to neoliberalism that he
is willing to indirectly support something even worse. (It's no accident
that he's also published in that extreme cospiracy theorist and Assad/Putin
supporting Mint Press News.) "Russiagate?" What "Russiagate"? You think
Putin & Co. didn't involve themselves in the last elections? Really? You
think Trump & Co. didn't encourage it? What was that meeting at Trump Tower
all about? Why did so many of Trump's staffers have contacts with Putin
representatives? Every imperialist power - including Russia - has its
preferred methods of influencing world affairs. It's now been shown that
Putin & Co. helped get Brexit passed. Here in the US, among other things,
they help racism along. Look up "blackstar". And, yes, Putin does have
"kompromat" over Trump. So, you think he wouldn't use it? That's like
thinking that a drug cartel doesn't use violence.
Here's an article of his in Counterpunch. Sure, maybe they have some good
stuff, but if they also publish such nonsense, How can they be taken
seriously?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/05/22/why-russiagate-still-matters/?fbclid=IwAR2dnImcxBfnrZDnf-Eo5_bOFAnm_iWqkCDee7o49VbOuSuA52io86an5CU


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