From: "Blazing Star" <sananda@hotmail.com>
Subject: * True colors
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001
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MODNOTE: Most people have eyes but do not see, and ears but do not hear.
I saw most "Sixties Radicals", as pigs, then. I see most of them, as pigs, now.
I started organizing against the Vietnam war, shortly after returning from
it, in the Sixties, and saw the lack of understanding and commitment most
anti-war movement "leaders" had, to the cause. Granted, I was brainwashed,
into joining the Marines, to fight and die for my country, but I quickly
learned, after a few short hours in boot camp, that I screwed up, big-time,
and I have been trying, to make amends, ever since.
The Peace Movement was the "fun thing to do" for many bourgeois California
college students, during the Vietnam era, and even today. I joined the
Marines, in 1965, after graduating from high school, in Southern
California, so I had and have a much different perspective, in terms of
fighting for peace and other worthy causes, as most of you are surely
aware, by now.
As a Chicano, I instinctively related, to the type of poverty, racism and
oppression the U.S. was subjecting the Vietnamese people to, very much.
Most anti-war protesters were totally unaware of this aspect of the war,
and of the true nature of the military and America's racist agenda.
Most of the anti-war protesters knew nothing about what it is like, to be
poor and oppressed, due to the color of your skin, all your life, and their
leaders didn't usually care, to hear about it. I would often have to force
the issue of racism onto White liberal and leftist agendas, as these
leaders struggled, to keep our U.S. Minority demands out of the picture,
altogether.
I personally saw the huge disproportionate numbers of Non-White "grunts"
(infantrymen), who were sent to the frontlines of Vietnam, to die or be
maimed for life, while soldiers mostly from the middle- and upper classes
literally partied, in the rear. Mostly U.S. Minorities and poor Whites were
mowed down, in Vietnam, along with many more innocent people whose only
"offense" was being born Vietnamese.
This is what I was trying to convey, to the Peace Movement, in the Sixties
and Seventies, but most of its White leaders had a much different agenda,
as we can see much more clearly, today. We not only had to contend with the
racism, in society-at-large and the military, there was no less racism
against us, in the Peace Movement, then, and even now.
Nevertheless, American and Vietnamese people were still being slaughtered,
over there, so I put up with the racist leaders, in the Peace Movement, to
help stop the killing, in Vietnam, knowing full well once the war ended,
these superstar "radicals" would go back, to their ritzy lives of sex,
drugs and rock-n-roll, leaving the rest of us, to cope on our own, with the
poverty and oppression we were trapped in, all along.
These scoundrels always tried, to act like they really liked us Non-White
activists, showing us off like trophies, to each other, as they struggled,
to become the main leaders of their packs. Most of them were children of
the rich and well-to-do, with the luxury of calling mommy and daddy for
money, transportation or a lawyer, after a drug bust, unwanted pregnancy or
whatever.
David Horowitz is a good example of these so-called "Sixties radicals,"
along with Tom Hayden, Jerry Brown and many other racists, once labelled
"leftists" and "revolutionaries," by the establishment. The establishment
is now showing off these "born-again racists," like trophies, to prove how
right and superior White racists were, all along.
Even with their long hair, fancy speeches, free drugs and loose ways, I
always saw these so-called radicals of the Sixties and Seventies, as the
racists they still are, and will always be. Most people do not become less
racist, as they age, they become more racist, as Horowitz is proving.
Non-Whites see the same problem, in today's environmental movement, where
most "White liberals" and "White radicals" would rather fight for anything
but against the poverty and oppression their parents and other elders are
subjecting millions of Americans to. These children of the rich and
well-to-do come for sex, drugs and rock-n-roll, just like some of their
parents used to do, at mass demonstrations of the past.
Today's "radicals" come, in droves, to Northern California, where I now
live; not so much, to protest the rape of our redwood forests, as to have
"fun, fun, fun!" In the meantime, their parents and other elders, also
labelled "radicals" in their youth, are exploiting, oppressing,
incarcerating and killing millions of poor and Non-White Americans to, in
every-which-way they can get away with, across the country.
Many of today's "radicals" will come out of the closet, to capitalize on
their racist views, in the future, just like David Horowitz is doing, now.
There is more racism in America, now, than ever, but more ways to hide it,
too. paz, ruben
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A Radical Transformation
Former '60s Agitator David Horowitz Has Changed His Politics, But Not His Tone
By Michael Powell
Washington Post Staff Writer
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