Oh THANKS for undeleting the messages. That makes me feel special, considering I'm still in "access denied" status and can't freely use the Mudcat front door. Don't you Mudcat mods ever get tired, wearing those heavy boots?

Janie, here is the problem I have with interpretations like yours. It completely overlooks what those kids did. Completely devalues everything SNCC stood for, everything they sacrificed, and well...just everything.

Your interpretation is all about what SNCC wasn't for most of it's life, and is historic neo-liberal revisionism at it's worst, IMO. All that just to lionize Martin?

Stokely Carmichael was not a violent, evil man--not by a long shot. And your portrayal of him as such is, again IMO, disingenuous.