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Thread #21130   Message #223672
Posted By: northfolk/al cholger
05-May-00 - 04:06 PM
Thread Name: BS: Jackson State 1970
Subject: RE: BS: Jackson State 1970
As per my reference in the KSU thread, the racial question was then, "how do you change the anti-war movement from what was then a middle class white student movement, with no consciousness of the victimization of Vietnamese or Black Americans, into a movement that understood the class implications of all struggles. I am very enthused, that the Labor community is less afraid to discuss inequity in a class context, the Student movement today is much more aware of the link between workers and students, even though all that we see happening today is in a much more conservative political climate. The thing that gives me the most hope is that I remember the hard, tedious, seemingly unproductive organizing that went into the civil rights, anti-war, ecology and womens movement. The same dramatic change will be reallized again and again.