RE: How to approach the troops?

["bon moun" <sherrynstan@xxxxxxx>]

I think the Bush
>administration made the right call for war, and I wish I could be
>there jammming my hellfires in some republican gaurd ass.
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Yoshie, while I don't think we can afford to totally ignore the kind of
military tribalism expressed in the screed you forwarded from that list,
I wouldn't walk across the street to argue with the lad.  Waste of time,
unless you can shoot him afterward.

The most remarkable and least commented upon aspect of war support in
the US, IMO, has been race.  I have no doubt that the vast majority of
white Americans support the war.  I don't even doubt, as one BBC report
implied, that half might see it as the fulfillment of some
Zionist-Christian millenarian prophecy from Revelations or Notsradamus
or Zarathustra or whomever the hell is on television Sunday mornings
now.  It's the so-called "racial disparity" in support for the war that
is interesting.

The "honk for peace" street corner vigils have become informal polls for
us, and our responses from Black folk is overwhelming against war.
African American truck drivers are one of our most reliable
demographics.  The other thing we found is that the model car most
likely to honk is an Echo.  I have no idea what that's about.

One thing we are struggling with right now, and it promises to be
fruitful so far, is concentrating on building an anti-imperialist pole
within our local antiwar work - which fragmented without totally
realizing it the day after the first tanks rolled north - that
prioritizes work in communities of color, beginning with Black majority
unions and HBCUs.