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[lentulusgracchus 1913] Isn't Lerone Bennett a notorious black separatist and revisionist?

[three_wheeled_yugo 1953]

[lg] Isn't Lerone Bennett a notorious black separatist and revisionist?

[three_wheeled_yugo] The short answer, yes he is.

Dear little three_wheeled_yugo,

That curious little curly punctuation mark at the end of LG's sentence is called a question mark. LG asked a question.

Then a three-wheeled-yugo rolled up, took another of his mindless mental dumps, and made an emphatic claim. Indeed, he made a baseless claim which he most emphatically cannot back up.

Lets be clear about this. What was stated to you by LG was the following.

I don't doubt the substance of the story, but I have a problem with the author cited. Isn't Lerone Bennett a notorious black separatist and revisionist?

Now it seems to me that an assertion is being made about the author you cited. While phrased as a question, it is an assertion nonetheless.

Furthermore, the assertion has two parts. Part A is the assertion that Lerone Bennett Jr. is a notorious black seperatist, part B is that author Lerone Bennett Jr. is a revisionist.

My response to this assertion was affirmative [short answer, yes], and I go on to cite an earlier work where Lerone Bennett credits the founding fathers as having invented racism.

There can be no disagreement about whether Lerone Bennett Jr. is a black liberation theorist. Even you aren't stupid enough to attempt to disclaim that assertion. Whats left then is to determine whether Bennett is a black liberation theorist of one stripe [integration] or another [separation].

Whether Lerone Bennett Jr. is or isn't a separationist could be a subject for lengthy discussion since virtually all Black Liberation theorists pay homage to Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam.

What isn't debatable, and what you have gone to great lengths NOT to discuss is part B of LG's orginal assertion.

The simple fact that Lerone Bennett Jr. IS a revisionist historian.

This is the relavant portion because it was a historical citation of Bennett's that you quoted in 1823 and a historical quotation from an earlier revisionist work of his that I referenced in 1958 .

Now, either you are the dumbest stump in the neo-confederate woodpile, or a carefully camoflauged black liberation theorist. Which is it?