Of course

by mot-juste

Posted to Poetry and Politics on 2004-03-05 21:14:00

Parent message is 615327
Jimboloco: but you look at his background: navigator bombardier world war 2/ longshoreman union man after that/ teacher in the South at ther height of the civil rights movement.

None of it, I think, has anything to do with being an academic historian. A political activist, yes. Which is not the best basis for scientific objectivity (which is exactly what he lacks, imo.) He’s a left ideologue, not a historian.

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