In labeling Bennett a Marxist-Stalinist, Non-Sequitur provided six links. Below I provide -ALL- six links and -ALL- comment by, or about, Bennett. The provided evidence, or lack thereof, clearly shows Non-Sequitur for the racist bigot, smear-job artist that he is.
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http://racerelations.about.com/library/weekly/aa051200a.htm
ABOUT.COM -- NO AUTHOR
[nc] Non-Sequitur here provides proof that a city of Chicago committee heard testimony from Lerone Bennett.The question of slavery reparations was raised at an April 26, 2000 joint hearing of the Chicago City Council Finance and Human Relations committees. U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) told the committees that, "The future of race relations will be determined by reparations for slavery," according to a Chicago Tribune report. The committees heard testimonies from Rush along with Claud Anderson, author of "Black Labor White Wealth; The Search for Power and Economic Justice," Lerone Bennett, executive editor of Ebony magazine and U.S. Rep. Danny Davis (D-IL), among others. For her part, Ald. Carrie Austin (34th) joked following her comments, "I want 40 acres and a Lexus," referring to a post-Civil War promise that former slaves would receive 40 acres of land and a mule.
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_23_97/ai_62298398
Jet, May 15, 2000
The Chicago City Council's Human Relations and Finance committees unanimously adopted a resolution to seek government hearings on the issue of reparations for the descendants of slaves in America.The full Chicago City Council is scheduled to address the resolution on May 17.
The city's Finance and Human Relations committees recently held a joint hearing in City Hall chambers on the resolution proposed by Chicago Alderman Dorothy Tillman that calls for state and federal hearings on the reparation issue.
Tillman already has garnered the signatures of half of the City Council's 50 members and the endorsement of Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley.
Participants at the hearing included Lerone Bennett, Jr., executive editor of EBONY Magazine and noted historian, Illinois Congressmen Bobby Rush and Danny Davis, and Wade Nobles, a San Francisco state psychologist who said slavery damaged both Blacks and Whites.
[nc] Non-Sequitur here provides proof that a city of Chicago committee heard testimony from Lerone Bennett. This is the same committee hearing as above. This amounts to two sources documenting nothing.
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/race_relations/july-dec00/reparations.html
PBS, September 5, 2000
"Chicago City Council members prepare to host a national discussion on paying reparations to descendants of American slaves. Elizabeth Brackett of WTTW-Chicago reports."
LERONE BENNETT: The question is not what are we today, the question is what would we have been today if we'd had all the billions of dollars that belonged to us. The question is how much greater we would have been and how much greater white people would have been if we had been given the money we deserved to have, and if we had the economic development that we should have now.
[nc] Yep. Lerone Bennett said money is owed. It is not yet clear how the racist bigot, smear-job artist Non-Sequitur turns this into proof that Bennett is a Marxist, Communist, or Stalinist.
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http://www.americanpolicy.org/more/dollarandsense.htm
The Dollars and Sense Answer to Black Reparations
By Tom DeWeese
Over the weekend of Friday, February 2nd, a National Reparations Convention was held in Chicago to draft a plan to see payment for blacks today based on the belief that the nation owes the present generation for the slavery imposed more than a century ago.Historian and Ebony magazine editor, Lerone Bennett, Jr., says, "We're not talking about a sentimental argument. We're talking about the fact that America owes us some money."
[nc] Yep. Lerone Bennett said money is owed. It is not yet clear how the racist bigot, smear-job artist Non-Sequitur turns this into proof that Bennett is a Marxist, Communist, or Stalinist.
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http://members.cox.net/smrose7/Marxist%20Concepts.html
Capitalism, Racism, Imperialism, Communism, Fascism, and Other Related Concepts
Dr. Steven Rosenthal, Professor of Sociology
Here is a brief introduction to the sociological analysis of capitalism, social classes, and class struggle; race, racism, super-exploitation, and the criminal justice system; imperialism and imperialist wars; fascism and communism.. This analysis is derived from the work of the two classical sociologists who contributed the most to a critical analysis of capitalism, racism, and imperialism, Karl Marx and W.E.B. DuBois. Throughout the essay there are links to articles you may be reading during this semester that provide or more detailed explanations or applications of these sociological concepts and theories.Black historian Lerone Bennett, in The Road Not Taken, a chapter from his book The Shaping of Black America, 1975, pp. 61-82, originally published in Ebony, vol. 25 (August, 1970), pp. 71-77), provided a good historical analysis of how racism was developed in colonial North America. According to Bennett, the African, European, and Native American workers on the colonial plantations were at first all indentured servants, that is, temporary slaves. They were largely unconcerned about the color of their skin. They worked together, made love together, rebelled, and ran away together. The plantation owners, desperate to control their labor force, pushed Africans down into hereditary slavery in order to divide and conquer. They used their control of colonial society to impose laws intended to force blacks, whites, and reds apart. Bennett shows that racism is not "natural." It is not something that is "just there." European laborers had no inherent fear or dislike of Africans. A century of terror, law, and religious propaganda were required in order to drive white and black labor apart in Colonial America.
Class Struggle. Summarizing Lerone Bennett's analysis using Marxist concepts, we could say that there was sharp class struggle in colonial North America between capitalist plantation owners and working class indentured servants. The capitalists sought to suppress this class struggle by dividing the workers into a "white" race of indentured servants, a "black" race of permanent slaves, and an "Indian" race that was mostly exterminated. Class struggle is the inevitable conflict that takes place between workers and the capitalists who exploit them. As Karl Marx wrote in the opening pages of The Communist Manifesto, class struggle has been going on for thousands of years, ever since human societies became divided into opposing classes.
Primitive Accumulation. The process Lerone Bennett described is part of a global process that Karl Marx called primitive accumulation. The first capitalists used the most primitive (that is, brutal and violent) methods to accumulate the capital they needed and to create a vast class of proletarians (workers) who owned nothing but their ability to work. They kidnapped and enslaved tens of millions of Africans and Native Americans and worked them to death in gold and silver mines and on sugar and tobacco plantations. W.E.B. DuBois, in The World and Africa, praised Marx, stating that "it was Karl Marx who made the great unanswerable charge of the sources of capitalism in African slavery." Read the analysis Marx wrote about primitive accumulation that earned Dubois's praise.
[nc] The author actually praises Bennett for having provided "a good historical analysis of how racism was developed in colonial North America." The author proceeds to summarize Bennett's "good historical analysis" using Marxist concepts. Lerone Bennett is not found to be in error, is praised as having provided "good historical analysis," and is not shown to be a Marxist. It will never be clear how the racist bigot, smear-job artist Non-Sequitur turns this into proof that Bennett is a Marxist, Communist, or Stalinist, other than through sheer racist bigotry.
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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=3205
Black Stalinists Will Fail (Reply to Robert George)
By David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | June 6, 2000
Against my argument that blacks owe a debt to America, George counters that "just because a given group overcomes evil circumstances, does not mean that those responsible for that evil should be commended - or rewarded for their actions. For example, one could make the argument that the Holocaust created greater worldwide support for the creation of the modern state of Israel. But no one would suggest that the Nazis should be commended for wanting to bring about the extinction of the Jewish people."As in so many other invocations of the Israeli case, the analogy itself is inappropriate. America did not create slavery, while Germany was the fount of the plan to exterminate the Jews. Germany was not the inspiration for the Zionist idea, but America was for the idea that black slaves should be free. America was conceived in the revolutionary idea that all men are created equal and endowed with the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Without this commitment, without America, blacks would still be slaves. Therefore blacks directly owe their freedom to America, to the American idea, and to the Americans - white Americans - who consecrated their lives and their sacred honors to the realization of the idea.
There is a powerful tendency on the part of black leaders these days to foul their own nest, to desecrate America and its heritage of freedom. Lerone Bennett Jr., the editor of Ebony, who once wrote a book about the arrival blacks on this continent "Before The Mayflower" has now written a 600-page diatribe against Abraham Lincoln to prove that the "The Liberator" himself - the American President most profoundly connected to the integration of blacks into the American narrative of freedom - was little more than a KKK racist. I myself quoted the attack by Randall Robinson (who is a Stalinist) on Thomas Jefferson, the author of the words that freed Robinson's ancestors (and therefore himself). Robinson wrote that Jefferson was a slaver and a rapist and that the honor that Americans (who voted for the Civil Rights Acts and gave trillions to blacks to redress their grievances) still paid to him, merely showed how evil and racist they were too.
[nc] Here, the racist bigot, smear-job artist Non-Sequitur advocates for the position that blacks owe a debt to America. Here, the racist bigot, smear-job artist Non-Sequitur advocates for the position that Blacks owe their freedom to America.
[nc] Bennett sees it otherwise. I have presented many of Bennett's arguments on FR and the racist bigot, smear-job artist Non-Sequitur cannot make any counter-argument on the merits so he calls Bennett names such at Marxist or Stalinist.
[nc] Here Randall Robinson is labeled a Stalinist.
As for the merits of what Robinson purportedly said:
http://www.africana.com/articles/daily/index_20020501.asp
Debating Reparations with Horowitz and Ogletree
By Lee Hubbard
Charles Ogletree is a professor of law at Harvard University.
[Hubbard to Ogletree] What do you think of David Horowitz and his role against reparations?His silly ideas and public posturing has actually placed the reparations debate back in the mainstream dialogue in America. Now, by trying to sell books that attack reparation supporters he has generated more public dialogue, more understanding and more support for an idea that was once thought of as being extreme. He has contributed to a deeper understanding of reparations based on the simplistic notions he promotes.
I will point out that it is not I who labeled your hero Lerone Bennett a Marxist-Stalinist, but others. I do agree with the conclusion that he is a strong supporter of reparations for blacks to compensate for slavery. And it is not unreasonable to believe that his positions on Lincoln are a result of his belief that a handout is justified.
Jefferson was most definitely a slaver. That is unassailable historical fact.
My Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (published pre-PC) defines a slaver as a person or a ship engaged in the slave trade. Jefferson held slaves, and he was indisputably a slavemaster, but whether he was also a slaver is not in doubt. He wasn't. Robinson used the word as a slur on Jefferson, his better.
As to whether Jefferson was a rapist may depend on whether one conceives that a slave has the power to consent.
Whether one believes that one depends on whether one accepts the more extreme theories offered in justification of slavery through natural law, viz., that slaves were ontologically incompetent and subhuman. A bondwoman may still withold consent, even if she is forced to submit to the unwanted attentions of a master.
Furthermore, Robinson's statement is in the form of preterition, a hit-and-run rhetorical technique ideally suited to delivering a slur like, in this case, Robinson's imputation of rape.
It is known that not only was Jefferson movin' on up, he was also gettin' on down. There is a family, descended from former Jefferson slaves named Hemings, with Jefferson DNA.
At least three male Jeffersons in Thomas Jefferson's grandfather's line are candidates for that DNA contribution. It is not conclusive that Thomas Jefferson was the donor. It's idle to wonder whether Robinson knew that; given his other two slurs, even if he knew his statement to be factually challenged, he'd have uttered it anyway.