Re: [Marxism] The Derivatives Game By RALPH NADER

["Ruthless Critic of All that Exists" <ok.president+marxml@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 9:00 PM, Mark Lause <markalause@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Fred wrote of his preference for "McKinney whose campaign has deeper
> Black and working class roots than Nader's."
>
> Is there any real evidence of this?  My impression is that the
> campaign drew very few new forces into the mix, while I'm sure that
> the vastly larger numbers of people involved with Nader include more
> working people and more blacks than the McKinney campaign.
>
> But this is just an impression from this area.
>
> I'm asking if there's any real evidence for this assertion elsewhere
> in the country?

A friend sent me this:

Cynthia McKinney Campaigns Enthusiastically in the Detroit area

Sep 16, 2008


Over the Labor Day weekend Cynthia McKinney was in Detroit and
appeared at a series of very exciting events.  The first of which was
a "mass rally" that brought out one hundred people to see Cynthia give
a very spirited campaign talk.  [...]

           The next night she appeared in the working-class,
interracial college town know as Ypsilanti. The event took place in a
private home and was mainly a fundraiser.

           On Monday, Labor Day proper, McKinney appeared at a
pro-labor bar called The Anchor, which was the site of many Detroit
Newspaper Strike events a decade ago.  She packed the back room of the
bar and, importantly, brought out some of the best and brightest of
the Detroit left.  As I mentioned there are way more African Americans
plugged into this campaign than any previous GP effort, and this was
reflected in the turnout at Monday's event.  I would go so far as to
say a quite small but significant layer of Detroit's Black left was in
attendance.  This included Ron Scott, founder of the Detroit Panthers
in '67 and a leader of the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality,
an important and ongoing formation.  It also included people like
Abayome Azikewe, who is a high-profile online journalist (Pan African
News Wire) and a significant contributor to the Detroit activist
scene.  Perhaps there were 50 or more people in the room or more, with
a solid 15 being people of color.  Not impressive when you consider
Detroit is 85% Black, but noteworthy when compared to the last three
Nader campaigns. [...]

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