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Paul Street is too often wildly off-key, as for example this phrase in his defense(?) of John Lewis:
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<div class="">"the splendid Russian expatriate <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/10/trump-election-autocracy-rules-for-survival/" class="">
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<div class="">She’s been part of the Russiagate syndrome!</div>
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<div class="">As for Kwame Turé, I have now <span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">only</span> vague memories of disappointment. </div>
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<div class="">On Aug 6, 2020, at 9:07 AM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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I’m re-posting my previous statement as it was when cutting and pasting by FB links.<br class="">
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Local Prof. Sundiata Cha Jua: <br class="">
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"We’ve been quiet and had chosen not to comment on John Lewis but the arch criminal neoliberal Bubba the bigot Clinton does not get a pass to attack Kwame Ture.<br class="">
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Why do Black people not see this racist for who he is? The Clinton years were the fourth and fifth Reagan terms.<br class="">
The best we can say is that Lewis was a fighter, a stubborn warrior who held his ground—non-violent integrationism—in subservience to a degenerate racist capitalist empire. Lewis could not be moved by the evidence of the worsening conditions of our people,
he was immune to new knowledge, he stubbornly stayed stuck in a 1963 dream despite living proof that it was really a nightmare. He stubbornly refused to move to 1966 let alone 2016.<br class="">
Kwame had his faults but stubborn refusal to make strategic adjustments to new situations was not one of them. America and Negro liberals can and should honor Lewis, he was a defiant warrior for their causes, not so much for us Black folk who desire to right
the first wrong, the taking of our human right to self-determination.”<br class="">
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">Paul Streets article in Counterpunch: <br class="">
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<a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/08/05/misleaders-at-a-funeral-bill-clinton-and-barack-obama-eulogizing-racial-justice-in-the-name-of-john-lewis/?fbclid=" class="">https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/08/05/misleaders-at-a-funeral-bill-clinton-and-barack-obama-eulogizing-racial-justice-in-the-name-of-john-lewis/?fbclid=</a><br class="">
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I also recommend Ajamu Baraka of the Black Alliance for Peace, and the Black Agenda Report where many African American activists write and express their opinions.<br class="">
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