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[nadinbrzezinski]

32. Bravenack knows I support the movement

but... here is the big but.. the conversation about whether this was right or wrong has been ongoing in the African American press as well. Many African American writers do not agree at all that this was productive. I am sure you know this. Or at least I hope you do.

Others are very much in agreement. To use an analogy going back almost a hundred years, this is Booker T Washington v Dubois all over again. And if these two young women wanted to get people angry at them, they succeeded beyond their wildest dreams, but they should, BOTH, read into those discussions, as well as others that have been ongoing since oh forever, or at least the last 400 years.

By the way, I got an article from Occupy (who was very critical) and I told the person who sent that to me, that the last group that is qualified to say squat about any of this is actually OWS. I love them and overall they have a lot to say, but there are things I witnessed at Freedom Plaza that make many in that space fully unqualified to say anything, good, bad or ugly, when it comes to race relations, and I mean the full scope not just regarding African Americans.

But if this discussion is to be complete those other voices have to be included... and you know what ISBM... not just here. I suspect that this discussion is actually happening to be exact, and I am not annoyed, or angry or anything else if I am not included at the moment. It is a discussion that the principals have to have.