The white left in New York is moribund. Aging Upper East Side intellectuals and Vietnam War protesters never show up at protests in this town anymore, and probably never will again. The political landscape of New York has changed entirely. The white intelligentsia isn't angry about anything and has little or nothing to offer the political debate. Their streets are cleaner, their fear of crime dissipated, their place in the city's socio-political firmament secured.
Many old radicals are comfortable now.
Like all protest movements, this one suffers from division, from prejudice, from lack of resources. Most of all, the people who are affected by the repressive policies of the Giuliani administration speak dozens of languages and are from every country in the world. All rights reserved.