Max wrote: > I followed this a while back. She would stumble periodically into a > tasteless remark, I think more out of insensitivity before the fact and > unwillingness to admit a mistake after (understandable, in light of the > attacks to which she was subjected). The upshot, unfortunately, is that she > made herself too hard to keep defending.<
Yeah, it seemed to me (from my superficial reading) that the presence of the NBPP in her security entourage was akin to that of the Hell's Angels at Altamont. It's also quite possible that the NBPP does not fit the ADL's characterization as "perhaps the largest organized anti-Semitic and racist Black hate group in America" (http://www.adl.org/PresRele/ASUS_12/4869_12.htm). I remember doing research on the 1968 NYC teachers' strike and finding that accusations of Black anti-Semitism were grossly exaggerated (and perhaps even invented) for political purposes, while accusations of anti-Semitism are likely to be thrown at anyone who dares to criticize Israel. This article (from Cornell University's CHRONICLE) seems worthwhile: http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/03/12.4.03/McKinney_coverage.html me, originally: > >a friend referred to Cynthia McKinney (who "might be nominated as the > >California Green Party's presidential candidate") as an "anti-Semite." > > > >I checked out and the allegations seem to be entirely based on the > >presence of members of the "New Black Panther Party" in her entourage. > >In the quotes from the NBPP after McKinney lost an election, they not > >only said stuff against Jews, but also stuff against "Crackers." (I > >think I might be part of both groups, though only marginally. I do > >notice that there's no Cracker Anti-Defamation League, while the ADL > >doesn't seem to care about bias against Crackers. > > > >does anyone have any special insight on this issue? -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
