[Peace-discuss] tea parties miss the boat

[John W.]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 4:03 PM, E. Wayne Johnson <ewj at pigs.ag> wrote:

 *"A lot of coded racism plays into this nowadays, too: anti-welfare "queen"
> ideology a la Ronnie "Rayguns" Reagan, etc. On a very important
> institutional level this is a familiar "divide and conquer" politics of the
> sort that allowed the English to conquer the Native Americans, India, and so
> on, and still keeps the American people under the thumb of its wealthy. It
> distracts our righteous popular anger over the repeated bail-outs of the
> rich and deepening neglect of most of us - away from the authentic popular
> pressure that is striving heroically in the opposite direction: toward a
> "people's bailout" and what some are calling equity<http://www.equityblog.org/>.
> "*
>
>
> Ricky---
>
> You weren't even present at the tea party rally and you are saying all this
> about what was said?
>
> And accusations of "coded racism"?
>
> I must say that it doesn't advance things much when folks write statements
> like this based on no knowledge of the actual situation.
>
> Wayne
>

By the same token, Wayne, you're quoting only Ricky's last paragraph and
ignoring all the rest of it.

My understanding is that Ricky's essay isn't based on what specifically was
said in West Side Park this afternoon, but on the information that is
generally available about the purpose of the "tea parties" nationwide, and
about what libertarians stand for.  And of course he's right.

John Wason




> Ricky Baldwin wrote:
>
> My 2c...
>
> http://theclayeater.blogspot.com/2009/04/missing-boat.html
>
> Ricky
>
> "Speak your mind even if your voice shakes." - Maggie Kuhn
>
>
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