tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post113275710970743644..comments2024-02-20T14:00:41.771-05:00Comments on A Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land: Martin, Malcolm, and MeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-1149366245818759852006-06-03T16:24:00.000-04:002006-06-03T16:24:00.000-04:00Good points...thanks!Yes, I was definitely writing...Good points...thanks!<BR/><BR/>Yes, I was definitely writing about how the _white_ left in ontario uses these figures, because that's what I know, by and large...I think I tried to be explicit that that was what I was doing, that I was figuratively tracing my own learning about these two men.<BR/><BR/>It doesn't come across explicitly in what I wrote, but the impact on me of the learning that I Scott Neighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17415106335668233754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-1149354172310597962006-06-03T13:02:00.000-04:002006-06-03T13:02:00.000-04:00this is interesting. i think your characterization...this is interesting. i think your characterization of how left uses malcom x and martin luther king is one of how the white left uses them. it misses how those figures are important, not just in the context of *their* historical time period for black consciousness, but in *this* historical time period, in southern ontario, for radical anti-racist politics. this shifts the focus--instead of beingrabfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16784748066010530771noreply@blogger.com