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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Absolutely Brilliant, you outdid yourself with this one David. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 28, 2019, at 06:39, David Green via Peace <<a href="mailto:peace@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">My letter to the News-Gazette, soon to be published, as read on the program:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The debate in the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">News-Gazette</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>regarding “racial disparities” in Unit 4 schools is remarkably uninformed, if not slanderous; unsurprisingly, it occurs within limits set by a society that quite intentionally promotes radical income and wealth inequality based not on “merit,” but systemic, legalized, and socially-admired greed.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">In this context, those who call themselves “liberal” or “progressive,” and accept capitalism, imperialism and war, use weasel words: “diversity,” “equity,” “equal opportunity,” etc. They speak the obscurantist language of individual attitudes and systemic cultural or racial “discrimination,” rather than the revelatory language of systemic economic (and environmental) exploitation and its accompanying “success” at materially, medically, and intellectually hammering working class families.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Unit 4 teachers and administrators, some of whom I’ve voluntarily worked with in recent years, range from merely competent to excellent. The A.C.L.U. and N.A.A.C.P., ironically evidencing limited analytical skills, look to “race” like an inebriated person looks for keys under a streetlight. Nevertheless, corporate-driven “multicultural” curriculum and testing regimes are designed to certify the “bright” futures of privileged students, while preparing working class students, regardless of race, for a future of alienation, self-blame, disrespected labor, and financial struggle.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">If the latter students don’t like that, the neoliberal corporate and political establishment makes it clear they can serve as military cannon fodder, medicate and entertain themselves, go to prison, or labor and suffer in silent desperation and false hope.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Schools are at worst bureaucratic accomplices in this rigged system. Liberal critics are oblivious to or enablers of those profiting from its rigging.</p></div></div><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div class="gmail_quote" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 2:46 AM J.B. Nicholson via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">News from Neptune #445<br class="">A "Ghost of an Anti-War Movement Past" edition<br class="">Video:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPA0iXKQkF8" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPA0iXKQkF8</a><br class=""><br class="">A list of links to items mentioned on the show.<br class=""><br class="">"Hamlet" by William Shakespeare<br class=""><a href="http://shakespeare.mit.edu/hamlet/full.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">http://shakespeare.mit.edu/hamlet/full.html</a><br class="">The quoted reference comes from Act 3, Scene 4.<br class=""><br class="">Jeffrey St. Clair on "The Last Line of Defense: 20 Activist Groups That Are<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">Making a Big Difference"<br class=""><a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/27/the-last-line-of-defense-20-activist-groups-that-are-making-a-difference/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/27/the-last-line-of-defense-20-activist-groups-that-are-making-a-difference/</a><br class=""><br class="">Voices For Creative Nonviolence<br class="">1249 W. Argyle St. #2<br class="">Chicago, Illinois 60640<br class="">773-878-3815<br class=""><a href="http://vcnv.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">http://vcnv.org/</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Tom Mackaman on "An interview with historian Gordon Wood on the New York<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">Times’ 1619 Project"<br class=""><a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/28/wood-n28.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/28/wood-n28.html</a><br class=""><br class="">Tom Mackaman on "An interview with historian James McPherson on the New<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">York Times’ 1619 Project"<br class=""><a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/14/mcph-n14.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/14/mcph-n14.html</a><br class=""><br class="">All pages on the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://wsws.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">wsws.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>site mentioning "1619 project"<br class=""><a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/search.html?sectionId=&maxResults=100&phrase=1619+project&submit=Search" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://www.wsws.org/en/search.html?sectionId=&maxResults=100&phrase=1619+project&submit=Search</a><br class=""><br class="">R. L. Stephens on "Between the Black Body and Me"<br class=""><a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/05/ta-nehisi-coates-racism-afro-pessimism-reparations-class-struggle" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/05/ta-nehisi-coates-racism-afro-pessimism-reparations-class-struggle</a><br class=""><br class="">Fannie Lou Hamer and the Freedom Democratic Party and Congressional Run<br class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Lou_Hamer#Freedom_Democratic_Party_and_Congressional_run" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Lou_Hamer#Freedom_Democratic_Party_and_Congressional_run</a><br class=""><br class="">Julie Wurth on "Local ACLU, NAACP chapters air concerns on achievement gaps<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">in Unit 4"<br class=""><a href="https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/education/local-aclu-naacp-chapters-air-concerns-on-achievement-gaps-in/article_861752a7-b070-54de-a488-b1e91031cbd7.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/education/local-aclu-naacp-chapters-air-concerns-on-achievement-gaps-in/article_861752a7-b070-54de-a488-b1e91031cbd7.html</a><br class=""><br class="">Related: Juliann Xu on "Unit 4 must address achievement gap"<br class=""><a href="https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/guest-commentary/guest-commentary-unit-must-address-achievement-gap/article_3bdc67f6-454d-5c5e-95fc-2000d268a6fb.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/guest-commentary/guest-commentary-unit-must-address-achievement-gap/article_3bdc67f6-454d-5c5e-95fc-2000d268a6fb.html</a><br class=""><br class="">Adolph Reed, Jr. on "Oats for Breakfast" show<br class=""><a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-108536943/episode-12-race-class-and-the-left-w-adolph-reed-jr" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://soundcloud.com/user-108536943/episode-12-race-class-and-the-left-w-adolph-reed-jr</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">-- initially published interview<br class=""><a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-108536943/unlocked-extended-interview-w-adolph-reed-jr" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://soundcloud.com/user-108536943/unlocked-extended-interview-w-adolph-reed-jr</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">-- extended interview<br class=""><br class="">Oats for Breakfast<br class=""><a href="https://socialistproject.ca/podcast/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://socialistproject.ca/podcast/</a><br class=""><br class="">Glen Ford on "The Validity and Usefulness of the Term “Black Misleadership<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">Class”"<br class=""><a href="https://www.blackagendareport.com/validity-and-usefulness-term-black-misleadership-class" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://www.blackagendareport.com/validity-and-usefulness-term-black-misleadership-class</a><br class=""><br class="">Adolph Reed on "Identity Politics Is Neoliberalism"<br class=""><a href="https://bennorton.com/adolph-reed-identity-politics-is-neoliberalism/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://bennorton.com/adolph-reed-identity-politics-is-neoliberalism/</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Howie Hawkins on "The Green Party Is Not the Democrats’ Problem"<br class=""><a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/25/the-green-party-is-not-the-democrats-problem/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/25/the-green-party-is-not-the-democrats-problem/</a><br class=""><br class="">Howie Hawkins interview with Primo Nutmeg on Russiagate (excerpt)<br class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xZZTlzThTo" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xZZTlzThTo</a><br class="">Full interview:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABW-_2lnn00" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABW-_2lnn00</a><br class=""><br class="">Jimmy Dore on Howie Hawkins supporting Russiagate to Primo Nutmeg<br class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvbSLYC2PaE" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvbSLYC2PaE</a><br class=""><br class="">Dr. Jill Stein on Howie Hawkins supporting Russiagate to Primo Nutmeg<br class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y7-IhocQWk" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y7-IhocQWk</a><br class=""><br class="">Rep. Tulsi Gabbard interview with Primo Nutmeg (which includes Rep. Gabbard<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">saying she'll not run as a third-party and that she's a loyal Democrat)<br class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkdl-QbtS1U" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkdl-QbtS1U</a><br class=""><br class="">Rep. Tulsi Gabbard saying she'll support any Democrat who wins the primary<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">which means she'll likely end up supporting someone more belligerent than<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">she speaks about war.<br class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzVSYBNgOeI" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzVSYBNgOeI</a><br class=""><br class="">> CBS Interviewer: Earlier this month you told our political reporter<br class="">> Caitlin Huey-Burns[1] that you would support the Democratic nominee if<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> you end up not winning the primary. Is there any policy a Democratic<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> nominee could hold that would persuade you not to elect them in the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> general election?<br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> Tulsi Gabbard: No. I am, as are all of the other candidates that I'm<br class="">> aware of running for president, committed to defeating Donald Trump in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> 2020. I look forward and hope to be able to earn that nomination myself<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> but if not then I'll join with others in making sure that that happens.<br class=""><br class="">[1]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/video/tulsi-gabbard-on-her-political-future/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://www.cbsnews.com/video/tulsi-gabbard-on-her-political-future/</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">where CBS' Caitlin Huey-Burns got right to the point:<br class=""><br class="">> Caitlin Huey-Burns: Will you ultimately support the Democratic nominee?<br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> Tulsi Gabbard: Yes.<br class=""><br class="">Craig Whitlock, Leslie Shapiro, and Armand Emamdjomeh on "The Afghanistan<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">Papers: A secret history of the war"<br class=""><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/documents-database/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/documents-database/</a><br class=""><a href="https://archive.md/75YUm" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://archive.md/75YUm</a><br class=""><br class="">Pentagon Papers<br class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers</a><br class=""><br class="">Major Danny Sjursen on "We Have Just Been Handed the Pentagon Papers of Our<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">Generation"<br class=""><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/afghanistan-papers-forever-war/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://www.thenation.com/article/afghanistan-papers-forever-war/</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Costas Lapavitsas<br class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costas_Lapavitsas" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costas_Lapavitsas</a><br class=""><br class="">Costas Lapavitsas interview with Paul Jay on "The Real News"<br class="">Transcript:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><a href="https://therealnews.com/stories/class-struggle-over-brexit-lapavitsas-and-jay" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://therealnews.com/stories/class-struggle-over-brexit-lapavitsas-and-jay</a><br class="">Video:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh65ee5U9Kk" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh65ee5U9Kk</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Rob Urie on "Gender, Class and Capitalism"<br class=""><a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/08/gender-class-and-capitalism/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/08/gender-class-and-capitalism/</a><br class=""><br class="">Liam Stack on "J.K. Rowling Criticized After Tweeting Support for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">Anti-Transgender Researcher"<br class=""><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/19/world/europe/jk-rowling-maya-forstater-transgender.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/19/world/europe/jk-rowling-maya-forstater-transgender.html</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">TERF is an acronym for "trans-exclusionary radical feminist"<br class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERF" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERF</a><br class=""><br class="">Cedric Johnson on "What Black Life Actually Looks Like"<br class=""><a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/04/racism-black-lives-matter-inequality" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/04/racism-black-lives-matter-inequality</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">J.B. 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