Re: Left Racism vs MILLION Man MARCH

[cdavidson@xxxxxxxxxxx]

What rock did Ralph Dumain crawl out from under?  This racist creep
should take his Nazi garbage--"the organgutans continue to
regurgitate and consume their own vomit" is his idea of "Marxist"
polemic against Farakhan and the Nation of Islam--and peddle it out
in Idaho with the Gestapo wanabees.

Even worse, he's not an isolated example of the racist attacks on the
march coming from this "Marxist" list and other left lists. We've
been treated to the "Million Moron March," "Afrocentric Testosterone"
and "penis worshippers," and on and on...

While this shit is just sick, the less hysterical commentary from the
left isn't much better.  I'll take my stand with all those Black men
who rallied in DC today any time against the bankrupt, pitiful
oppostion the left has expressed to this fundamentally progressive
and historical blow against racism and oppression.

The Million Man March had two highly focused targets. 1) Gingrich and
the so-called GOP "Contract on America" revolution externally, and 2)
the anti-social, anti-woman, anti-family,  self-destructive and self-defeating
activity of aportion of Black men.  The marchers saw both as interconnected
and that a blow on each front is needed to make progress on either front.
The main force of the hundreds of thousands mobilized was comprised
of the Black working class, poor, and unemployed.

The left as it exists today seems to be completely incapable of understanding
this event, let alone leading it or offering any realistic alternative.
Too many of my comrades have been so crippled by either a white
blindspot or a tunnel-vision feminsim that they can't relate to a
million Black men rallying as men to criticize themselves for mistreating
women and thus holding back their ability to contribute to the
overall struggle of their community.  The left seems to have lost
sight of the fact that most people are mobilized to fight mainly by
an appeal to their moral values and fundamental sense of human
solidarity and decency.  That's what I saw being affirmed in DC, and
the garbage spewed out it opposition to it on this list would
probably make Farakhan's narrow nationalist diatribes seem rather
tame by comparison.   Carl Davidson, Chicago.



> >But . . . the Farrakhan March is not a radical protest. It is very
The orangutans continue to regurgitate and consume their own

>There cannot be a criticism ruthless enough of this March.


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