[Peace] [Peace-discuss] Ridiculous praise for John Lewis

[Karen Aram]

Mort

Paul Street is often a bit off, of late, but he has also been spot on. 
He is only one writer in relation to this topic offering too much detail, but detail that others may not. 

I don’t recommend ever reading just one source, for the uninitiated. I take his comment regarding Gessen as sarcasm, but it matters not. 

As to Kwame Ture  I have been posting his many podcasts and he is anything but disappointment. His statements in the recent debate make the point, in response to Angela Davis comment in the early ninety’s that “African Americans are worse off than ever before." His response was “we live in the best of times and the worse of times, yes African Americans are worse off, but their consciousness has been awakened.” He always offers not just the solution to racism, which is socialism, anti-imperialism, and an end to capitalism, the cause of exploitation. All of which is overlooked by the John Lewis crowd and those working within the system. 

Again, Prof. Sundiata, though somewhat critical of Kwame nonetheless calls out those who vilify him, while promoting John Lewis. 

> On Aug 6, 2020, at 10:34, Brussel, Morton <brussel at illinois.edu> wrote:
> 
> Paul Street is too often wildly off-key, as for example this phrase in his defense(?) of John Lewis:
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> "the splendid Russian expatriate Masha Gessen  <https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/10/trump-election-autocracy-rules-for-survival/>…. "
> She’s been part of the Russiagate syndrome!
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> As for Kwame Turé, I have now only vague memories of disappointment. 
> 
> 
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>> On Aug 6, 2020, at 9:07 AM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net <mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:
>> 
>> John 
>> 
>> I’m re-posting my previous statement as it was when cutting and pasting by FB links.
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>> Local Prof. Sundiata Cha Jua: 
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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.
>>> 
>>> Why do Black people not see this racist for who he is? The Clinton years were the fourth and fifth Reagan terms.
>>> 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.
>>> 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.”
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>>> Paul Streets article in Counterpunch: 
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>>> 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= <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=>
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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.
>>> 
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