I agree with you, but  would like to add that the Nation of Islam made a pretty good start on developing a racial theory and it was  that theory that eventually caused  Malcolm X --one of my heroes-- to break with them, and to say in  an interview in 1965: 
 
   "I realized racism isn't just a black and white problem. It's brought bloodbaths to about every nation on earth at one time or another. Brother, remember the time that white college girl came into the restaurant — the one who wanted to help the Muslims and the whites get together — and I told her there wasn't a ghost of a chance and she went away crying? Well, I've lived to regret that incident. In many parts of the African continent I saw white students helping black people. Something like this kills a lot of argument. I did many things as a [black] Muslim that I'm sorry for now. I was a zombie then — like all [black] Muslims — I was hypnotized, pointed in a certain direction and told to march. Well, I guess a man's entitled to make a fool of himself if he's ready to pay the cost. It cost me 12 years. That was a bad scene, brother. The sickness and madness of those days — I'm glad to be free of them."
Some people have no idea of the transformation in Malcolm from hood to militant racist and then to a man wise enough to see the errors embedded in all racism.

--Joanne



Debra Jackson/Harold Forsythe <[log in to unmask]> wrote: There are sharp differences among Farrakhan, Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson 
which this post fogs over.  There is no established intellectual tradition 
of racism in the African-American community and there are reasons for that. 
I am not saying that no African-American is racist or has developed a racial 
theory, I am saying that there is no tradition and no generally accepted 
template for such a theory in the rank-and-file of African-America.

The simple answer to the question why, can be found in the histories of the 
chief black churches and the history of the NAACP.

The offered symmetry is, so doubt, comforting but it does not comport with 
the historical record.

Harold S. Forsythe
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Philip Adams" 
To: 
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 11:39 PM
Subject: Re: The Law & Lynching


> Racist exist on both sides. The white folks have David Duke and crowds. 
> The
> black folks, Farrakhan, Sharpton, Jackson, and others. BTW, do not forget
> those who hate both sides, and are willing to kill us all.
> As it goes for the Klan. The Klan beat and hanged whites for misdeeds,
> perceived and 'real' as well as they were hanging and beating blacks. As 
> it
> goes for whites ignoring the Klan members, it we somewhat  hard to turn in
> those who were members when they were family members, cousins or siblings.
> The consequence of discovery that you were the 'snitch' was the terrifying
> realization that you also could become a victim. Remaining quite was the
> price for survival. I hope that we can change and become united Americans
> again. We have more to merge our families' than we do by allowing others 
> to
> knife us in the back.
>
> John Philip Adams
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Anne Pemberton
> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 7:49 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: The Law & Lynching
>
> Lyle,
>
> I suggest it is you who have misunderstood me. I am asking you to look
> carefully at the comparisons you make. The KKK existed for several
> generations and was responsible for a tremendous amount of terror and a 
> fair
>
> number of killings. As far as I know, no one is "terrorized" by whatever
> Louis Farrankhan is saying, and no one has been killed in response to his
> words. You seem to be grabbing at straws to assert that black folks are
> somehow just as racist as the KKK was. Yet, there is no substance to you
> allegation. The numbers are just not there!!!
>
> Anne
>
> Anne Pemberton
> [log in to unmask]
> http://www.erols.com/apembert
> http://www.educationalsynthesis.org 


 
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