Re: M-TH: Ali BBC sportsperson of the century

2000-01-05 Thread J.WALKER
Hello all, I'm afraid I have reconnected to a computer now, so to skip back a week or so, Chris wrote: An awareness of class and national oppression is absorbed in childhood. A child notices whether their mother or father is treated with respect and by whom ... Much of this is

Re: M-TH: Ali BBC sportsperson of the century

1999-12-19 Thread Hugh Rodwell
Chris B writes: Like Hugh, (who essentially agrees with me apart from having to take a customary swipe at reformism) I also remember the black power salute at the Olympics. That took courage. I don't essentially agree with Chris. I essentially disagree with him precisely because of the

M-TH: Ali BBC sportsperson of the century

1999-12-12 Thread Chris Burford
One of the problems of a Gramscian concept of revolutionary change in a developed capitalist society it what individual changes are significant, however small. Last night felt like one of them. The BBC had its votes for outstanding sports people of the year and the century. Mohammed Ali won