In the lead-up to any large-scale protest, it is useful to bear in mind the potential dangers and drawbacks of such an endeavor. On the eve of what is being advertised as the biggest climate march in history, we might reflect on Malcolm Xs experience of the March on Washington, as recounted in the Autobiography of Malcolm X: Farce in Washington, I call it. . . . It was like a movie. . . . For the status-seeker, it was a status symbol. Were you there?. . . . It had become an outing, a picnic. . . . What originally was planned to be an angry riptide, one English newspaper aptly described now as the gentle flood. . . . there wasnt a single logistics aspect uncontrolled. . . . They had been told how to arrive, when, where to arrive, where to assemble, when to start marching, the route to march. . . . Yes, I was there. I observed that circus.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 20:55:57 +0000
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