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- From: cmort@NCoast.ORG (Christopher Morton)
- Subject: Re: *Secret of MIM
- Reply-To: cmort@ncoast.org (Christopher Morton)
- Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 01:53:21 GMT
- Message-ID: <Bzzzwx.Lup@NCoast.ORG>
- Followup-To: soc.culture.african.american
- References: <BzzsL8.4rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
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- As quoted from <BzzsL8.4rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> by Maoist Internationalist Movement <SCIENCE@mitvma.BITNET>:
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- > Now that Christopher Morton has clarified that the Maoist
- > Internationalist Movement is not affiliated with Bob Avakian
- > and the RCP, there is not much left to his criticism
- > of our movie review of "South Central" directed by Steve Anderson.
-
- Oh, there's a WHOLE lot left. You can exploit the ignorance of the
- poor and uneducated without ANY connection to Bobby.
-
- > The only thing left is his implication that we somehow support
- > independent Black drug-dealing in Black neighborhoods. People
- > need to go back and read our original review that said, "While
- > drug-selling shows the self-destructive and capitalist side
- > of gangs and must be eradicated, the rest of his talk could be
- > a Maoist speech about building power of the oppressed to seize
- > power." (MIM Notes 70, p. 8) This sentence referred to a
- > depicted gang leader in the movie.
-
- You're certainly willing to countenance it, AREN'T you? And the ironic thing
- about this fantasy is that if you ever DID come to power, you'd be SHOOTING
- the people doing the drug selling without reference to race, creed or color.
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- Obviously it's ok to destroy the Black community... UNTIL you come to power, at
- which time any and all competing power bases are snuffed out with a bullet to
- the brain. That's not supposition. That's history.
-
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- "Well whose opinions did you THINK these were...?"
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