NYU Black Renaissance Noire Summer/Fall 2011 | Page 10
Bernie Sanders
Rick Santelli
W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington
might have had disagreements, but
they both commented about the racism
of the white working class. Progressives
have been accused of “white chauvinism”
by black progressives since the 1920s.
They still believe that it’s all about class
and not race even though the white
workers have spurned most attempts
to join in a coalition with minorities
sometimes by using violence.
The reason that the left is now led by
white men who lack street smarts and
are prone to this kind of naivety is
because the white middle class feminist
movement, which has gained influence
over left wing politics, pushed black
men to the margins of the movement
by casting them as symbols of male
misogyny. Even heroes like Malcolm
X and Martin Luther King, Jr. are
now being subjected to what amounts
to misogyny show trials, in the
press and on Broadway as a result of
entertainment financed by white men.
In an earlier period, it was W.E.B.
DuBois and Booker T. Washington
who were subject to ridicule: DuBois
for his radical politics, Washington,
after dining with Theodore Roosevelt
and after being beaten in New York.
Obama hater Gloria Borger of cnn
commended the Tea Party as people
who came to Washington to assert
their principles; people who couldn’t
be bought by promises of Ear Marks.
People who are not beholden to party
leaders: this is because their bills are
paid by people like the Koch brothers.
They’re beholden to the rich who
sent them there. A group of blondes,
one of whom was from England
and another a descendant of Herbert
Hoover were brought on msnbc to
criticize the president. Among them
was Michelle Cottle who saluted the
Tea Party’s “purity.” She works for
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