Occupy Boston accused of racism by own offshoot

Boston Metro ^ | November 21, 2011 | STEVE ANNEAR

[ConservativeStatement]

A member of Occupy the Hood Boston, an activist group focused on social inequities in urban communities, said the group formally separated from Occupy Boston.

Community activist Jamal Crawford said elements such as “racism and white privilege” have been “hindrances to forward progress,” in an e-mail he sent to occupiers, demanding certain things change. “I can’t say all of OB is racist or OB itself is racist [but] we witnessed and experienced white privilege and racism,” he said.

[ConservativeStatement]

Can't be, fleabaggers are all one in unison. Like, wow.

[Humble Servant]

Occupy Occupy.

[JohnBrowdie]

Didn’t take long for them to become “the man”, did it?

[dead]

I never met a white liberal from Boston who wasn’t a racist.

[Tzimisce]

Ha

[donhunt]

It’s just that some people are more equal than others.

Take a bath and get a job.

[San Jacinto]

Why can’t they just get along?

[Greysard]

Revolutions sometimes devour their own children. That had been known since the days of French Revolution - which ended badly for a large number of original participants.

In part that's because once a group is formed to use violence to gain power, why a smaller group within that larger group can't form shortly after to use more violence to gain even more power? In the end you will have a dictator or a clique who used the ultimate violence and used dead bodies of their former comrades to climb to the very top.

It always works like that, unless prevented by such extraordinary factors as rule of law or armed population that isn't interested in another dictator on the throne. But how many countries can honestly say that they have such things?

OWS, being a ragtag bunch of hippies who don't have a single common interest except drugs, is doomed to fail. However some of its splinter groups can be organized into a fighting force. This is exactly how revolutions are made.

[maine yankee]

Move to the rear of the tent.

[Prov1322]

Born and raised in the Northeast urban corridor from Philly to Boston and now living in the Deep South for years I can say from experience...

There is far more racism evident in liberal Northeast cities than in the Deep South.

[The KG9 Kid]

"... Community activist Jamal Crawford said elements such as “racism and white privilege” have been “hindrances to forward progress,” in an e-mail he sent to occupiers"

A move that's sure to get a consensus of the downiest of 'down-twinkles'.

Dear OWS: You're like SOOO last month.