Wisdom

Notice that it is the CONSERVATIVES who are the most racist, whether Republican or Democrat. And what Dr. King observed in the 1860s was that opposition to Civil Rights came from an ALLIANCE of right wing racist Dixiecrats and right wing northern Republicans. First of all, it was the MOVEMENT by millions of Blacks and their allies which caused the pressure which led to the passing of any Civil Rights bills. And it was (in terms of government) an alliance of LIBERAL Democrats and Republicans which pushed the Bill through congress. The liberal shift among Democrats seemingly began on a large scale with FDR. It was then the Democrats began to erode nearly universal Black support for the Republican Party. The Republican movement toward the right and the Democrat movement toward the "left", especially during the 1960s, is what solidified Black support for the Democrats. It was already a bad sign when it was the Kennedys rather than Nixon who intervened to help gain the release of Dr. King from jail in 1960. It led to Martin King, Sr. to shift his support from Nixon to Kennedy. Goldwater's opposition to the Civil Rights Act (which got him some Dixiecrat support) help wreck any chances of him getting the Black vote in 1964, and severely hurt Republican chances of regaining Black support. It caused Dr. King himself to openly and publicly oppose Goldwater (though Dr. King, unlike his dad tended to avoid politics at that level). I know Goldwater was the reason my parents voted for Johnson, and why they'd never consider voting Republican. Robert Smith is correct. White racism cuts across political and ideological lines. But it is most vehement on the Right. And it appears Lyndon Johnson was right that his support for the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts (recently undermined by a conservative Supreme Court) would lose the South from the Democratic part for a generation.

-Savant
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Wrong, m___, And there have been many studies and investigations by scholars and human rights groups (e.g. Amnesty International) which show that Blacks and Latins are even TODAY mainly the victims of racism, not the perpetrators. There have been studies by psychologist at Harvard U saying that anti-white animosities among Blacks are far less common than anti-Black animosities among whites. Interesting considering that there is no record of African Americans oppressing whites, but a ton of evidence of whites oppressing Blacks--and oppression and injustice is the core of racism (not mere prejudice) Even today---and there has been studies to to show this--employers often regard Black college graduates with NO prison record as more desirable employees than whites with a prison record and no college education. Duh,,,,Get out of your white bubble of self-delusion and get in touch with the real world,

-Savant

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Actually, Fanon's position isn't quite that simple since he argues that some African countries 9unlike Algeria) might be able to achieve their ends by means other than violence, through political action. Fanon has certain depth and creativity as a thinker which surpasses even Nkrumah. For Fanon, decolonization occurs at the level of being. I will see whether the persons you quoted REALLY have much understanding Fanon. As far as your that I want to keep Africa enslaves--which I imagine must have been the reasons I spent the entire 1980s supporting revolutionary movement in South Africa and other parts of the Continent--your claim is a non sequitur, an silly Ad hominem, and simply stupid. It follows from nothing I've posted, and not even from your so-called critique of my position, But if you want to play that game, then perhaps you are misusing Nkrumah to divert attention from reality and to conceal your own shortcomings.. As for your equating Angela Davis and George Jackson with Karenga (despite their radical critiques of Karenga which anyone can read), that only reveals further your political and philosophical illiteracy. And given my own frequent denunciations of Karenga, your assuming that I am pro-Karenga is either dishonest, stupid or both. I've long suspected Karenga of being a COINTELPRO pig, just as some of your own antics make we wonder if you're aren't an undercover pig as well. As for Nkrumanism, at least as practiced by the AAPRP, I've long seen it used for opportunist purposes. Nkrumahism for them seemed to operate as an excuse not to engage in Black Liberation struggle in the USA, Nkrumah may have been a brilliant man and pioneer of African liberation, but his followers. Perhaps you are hiding behind Nkrumah to conceal your lack of commitment--if not your out and out treachery.

-Savant

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Revolutionaries often read and influence each other. Mao also authored principles of discipline, which included "take no liberties with the women", and take nothing from te people, not even a piece of bread, etc. It also appeared in BPP writings. Whether Mao or Nkrumah issued this first, I don't know. As for Confucianism, which virtually every philosopher on earth has heard of (and which Mao and his revolutionaries critiqued and denounced unmerciful), it is probably the oldest and most influential philosophical tendency in China--roughly like Platonism in the West. This may surprise you, but I didn't get my degrees in Philosophy from Sears n' Roebuck. I'm certainly not less knowledgeable of Philosophy than Nkrumah or Stokely, and I gather from their writings that in some areas of philosophical research I may even be more informed

-Savant
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AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY: ESSENTIAL READING by Tsenay Serequeberhan, a well known brother philosopher from Eritrea. I worked with him for awhile. He has many other works too. I will mention some of them over time.

-Savant

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http://socialistworker.org/2014/02/04/fifty-years-of-the-war-on-poverty?quicktabs_sw-recent-articles=4-18

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/09/you-vs-corporations/

http://louisproyect.org/2014/06/30/john-v-walsh-ralph-nader-and-the-right-left-alliance-no-thanks/

http://www.workers.org/articles/2014/07/23/across-u-s-migrant-bashing/

http://www.workers.org/articles/2014/07/22/brooklyn-n-y-gentrification/

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