Re: [Marxism] Marxism Digest, Vol 46, Issue 20

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In a message dated 8/9/2007 9:00:39 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, "Jesse  Jack" 
writes:

But if  the issue is racial, why are people saying that Bonds' all-time HR
record  is tainted when Aaron himself is African-American? Why would racist
whites  care if a black man breaks a record already held by another  black
man?
 
reply -
 
comrade, your opinion on this matter reveals how much of a disconnect you  
have from Black America who, according to an ESPN poll  overwhelmingly feels 
that racism is, while not the only  factor behind the Bondsophobia, certainly 
is 
an important one. Aaron, a man who  never opened his mouth during the 60s and 
70s about the  struggle against racism, is "the good negro" - an old game of 
the racist power  structure going back to slavery days. (See Malcolm X on "the 
house negro vs. the  field negro".) Aaron vs. Bonds, Floyd Paterson vs. 
Muhammed Ali, Dr. King (after  he's dead) vs. Malcolm - an old story. 

 



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