Comments on: FDL Book Salon Welcomes Jane Rhodes and “Framing the Black Panthers”

By: BooRadley

BooRadley — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:20:28 +0000

Just my admittedly amateurish guess.

When the Imus insult of Rutgers’ women’s basketball team broke, a lot of the media turned to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. I think there was a sense that better representatives of the descendants of the slaves were available.

Perhaps that was analagous to picking Joe Lieberman to speak for Democrats.

By: cbl2

cbl2 — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:16:04 +0000

for interested Firedogs, you can go to this page, and listen to Professor Rhodes talk about the book

By: BooRadley

BooRadley — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:10:49 +0000

Dr. Rhodes and Dr. Joseph, thanks so much for the chat.

By: looseheadprop

looseheadprop — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:06:14 +0000

I haven’t seen the film either, but I can tell you that the re-enactment provoked a visceral outrage repsonse in me. Like “hey, you can’t do that. This is Amrica.”

By: Pachacutec

Pachacutec — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:05:03 +0000

Jumping in late, sorry to have missed the conversation, but this has been an excellent discussion and introduction.

Hopefully, new online media activists can forge alliances and design points of collaboration together with radicals for change and coalitions of color in contemporary times without making some of the mistakes that fractured such alliances in the past, and without being pitted against each other by common enemies.

Doubtless, even if we can learn the lessons of the recent past and avoid old pitfalls, we’ll stumble into new (yet still old) ones, though it’s great to have this conversation here today. Thanks so much, Professor Joseph and Jane Rhodes, for joining us here today.

By: Dakinikat

Dakinikat — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:03:55 +0000

thank you so much for your contributions and framing of this subject, it was a very insightful discussion

By: demi

demi — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:03:49 +0000

Suzanne
It’s not so much that the movements went wrong. It’s a long time in eternity. We’re all human. We do what we can in small increments.
You play a part in this movement.
Sometimes we gotta cry, laugh, sing, rage…
It’s a big, big picture and we do what we can in the venues we have sought and found.

By: BevW

BevW — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:02:25 +0000

Professor Rhodes and Professor Joseph, thank you both for coming to the Lake and spending the afternoon with us. We’ve enjoyed the conversation.
Thank you again.

By: Jane Rhodes

Jane Rhodes — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:01:49 +0000

This has been my pleasure!!!

By: Dakinikat

Dakinikat — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:00:27 +0000

good points, especially that last one, to remember

thank you so much again for speaking with us