From: cmort@NCoast.ORG (Christopher Morton)
Subject: Re: Racists Rewarded by UMass
Reply-To: cmort@ncoast.org (Christopher Morton)
Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 14:50:21 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.african.american

As quoted from <i0L8VB8w165w@nyxfer.uucp> by mim@nyxfer.UUCP:

> 
> Subject: Racists Rewarded by UMass
> From: nyxfer!mim (Maoist Intl'ist Mvmnt)
> 
>  
> Via The NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit
>  
> from the Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM)
>  
> MIM Notes, Issue 71: December, 1992
> 
> 
>        Racists Rewarded at the University of Massachusetts
> 
I am quite familiar with NY Transfer (I prefer Manhattan Transfer) and am
aware of the absurdist comedy group MIM.  With this in mind I can honestly
say that I wouldn't believe that Louis Farrakhan was a Black man if my only
"proof" came from MIM.

Until proved otherwise, I will consider this yet ANOTHER attempt by the clones
of Bob Avakian to coopt and confuse the "lumpenproletariat" for it's own
exploitative purposes.

If anybody has any VERIFIABLE information regarding these alleged incidents
from a LUCID source, I'd like to see it.  I suspect that yet again the 
appologists for Han Chinese racism in Tibet are waxing idiotic.  If it IS
true, I'd like details from an at least partially reliable source without
hidden agendas.

A few comments:

> On October 13, the Black Student Union presented a list of demands
> designed to increase minority representation. The BSU set a two
> week deadline and the U.S. Justice Department volunteered to
> mediate. According to the Boston Globe, the Department of Justice
> had recently determined that the nearby city of Holyoke is one of
> the U.S. cities most ripe for riot, which likely increased their
> interest in "racial tensions" at UMass.

You'd think that the Union would at some point complain about the "attacks"
in addition to underrepresentation.  I wonder why they didn't?  Maybe they
didn't happen, or they happened in a way VERY different from the Secret of
MIM claims....

> On November 9, a compromise was announced. About a third of the
> Black Student Union's demands were met, and the administration has
> graciously volunteered to hire 20 more police officers. The
> student negotiators seem unaware that the University could fund at
> least 80 full scholarships with the salaries of these 20 cops.
> 
The appologists for genocide seem unaware that they've above complained about
a lack of security, then complain when more is provided.  What do the 
Avakianites propose these scholarships be offered in, campus security?

> To the activists at UMass, I can only commend your efforts.
> Increasing minority representation, especially that of
> oppressed-nation women, is a valuable reform. The road to
> liberation, however does not lie in begging the administration for
> piece-meal reforms, but in building independent power. Likewise,
> the administration's attempts to buy minority happiness by hiring
> 20 more racist cops (the first thing the University offered when
> confronted with the demands) should be met with resistance, not
> silence.
> 
Oh, and how was it determined that the officers to be hired would be racist?
Was that a part of the job description?  What was the racial makeup of the 
officers hired?

> Remember that the U.S. Justice Department and a campus that
> rewards racist assailants are not on the side of oppressed
> peoples.
> 
And for certain no Maoist is on the side of oppressed peoples... more like
standing with his foot on their necks.
> 
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