Scoundrel Time as Corporate Liberalism

From Redbadbear:

Sam Friedman levied a sharp critique of corporate liberalism a day or so ago, commenting that I (Hunter) knew much about its negative impact in and on the Southern Movement.  He's right -- I do.  The National NAACP and the Kennedy administration did their best to subvert our large and militant Jackson Movement almost 50 years ago -- and did a great deal of damage.  I've recently passed around a couple of my long and pointed missives regarding present events in Jackson where 50th Anniversary efforts are underway, in the name of the Jackson Movement, to whitewash that, along with some of the cruel realities of Old Mississippi (and probably some of the present ones) -- and present the National NAACP and the Kennedys as Sterling Knights of the Light.

I'm not known for crudity -- but, B.S.  And I could cite many other sorry Dixie instances involving various versions of corporate liberalism and self-serving high level "pragmatism" during that sanguinary era.

And I can cite other instances in other times and places.

My correspondence on all of this has picked up considerably and that's why I've enlarged my signature link regarding my book, Jackson Mississippi.  (Here is that, in case you don't scroll down.)

See the new and expanded/updated edition of my "Organizer's 
Book." It's the inside story of the massive Jackson Movement,
bloody repression and murder, and more -- including a myriad
of organizing "lessons."  And with my new and 10,000 word
Introduction. http://hunterbear.org/jackson.htm (". .a local activist's
 important account of the deleterious effects the involvement of 
national organizations can have on indigenous protest movements."
David Garrow in "The Age of the Unheralded", Progressive Magazine,
April 1990.

And that's why I've occasionally quoted the concluding line of a speech I gave at Jackson in 1979 -- condemning
"the subversion by the corporate liberals of New York and the self-styled "pragmatism" of those splendid scoundrels residing in Camelot on the Potomac." That drew a thundering and standing ovation from about one thousand people.

Sam's right on all of this stuff. And so am I -- and so are many others.  And, when Sam finished an earlier edition of my book a few years ago, he wrote a very solid review on just this of which we're writing.  Posted that on Amazon where it certainly remains.

Much changes as years and decades pass.  But Scoundrel Times, whatever the masks of the period, always continue -- with the basic thrust, however openly or covertly, of keeping the people in their "place".  And, of course, that means Down.

Hunter Bear

HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq /St. Francis 
Abenaki/St. Regis Mohawk 
Member, National Writers Union AFL-CIO
www.hunterbear.org 
(much social justice material)

See the new and expanded/updated edition of my "Organizer's 
Book." It's the inside story of the massive Jackson Movement,
bloody repression and murder, and more -- including a myriad
of organizing "lessons."  And with my new and 10,000 word
Introduction. http://hunterbear.org/jackson.htm (". .a local activist's
 important account of the deleterious effects the involvement of 
national organizations can have on indigenous protest movements."
David Garrow in "The Age of the Unheralded", Progressive Magazine,
April 1990.

See my piece ON BEING A MILITANT AND RADICAL
ORGANIZER -- AND AN EFFECTIVE ONE:
http://crmvet.org/comm/hunter1.htm

The Stormy Adoption of an Indian Child [My Father]:
http://hunterbear.org/James%20and%20Salter%20and%20Dad.htm
(Expanded in 2012. Photos. Material on our Native
background.)