The incomparable Voices With Vision and Netfa Freeman invited this discussion of Kwame Ture/Stokely Carmichael in light of continued and renewed interest in the man and his politics. We discussed this review of, and previous debatewith, Peniel Joseph whose self-proclaimed “fatherhood” of, and approach to, “Black Power Studies” raises, at minimum, causes for concern. Also mentioned was the article on Cuba and Image Weaponry.
Joseph in writing the book becomes a part of history that marginalizes Ture. Ture’s relevance was, not because of his politics but because of America’s ability to make people disappear. When he left America for Africa it made it easier for him to vanish from the American consciousness. what Joseph does is add to that effort. Joseph’s writing is a form of popular/public history, and it accomplished his job.
Joseph in writing the book becomes a part of history that marginalizes Ture. Ture’s relevance was, not because of his politics but because of America’s ability to make people disappear. When he left America for Africa it made it easier for him to vanish from the American consciousness. what Joseph does is add to that effort. Joseph’s writing is a form of popular/public history, and it accomplished his job.
Uncle peniel sounds like he is the heir apparent to uncle skip’s revisionist minstrellectual throne.
F*ck him and his plantation ‘scholarship’.
Kelley and Horne [naively and conditionally] co-signed his claptrap? Word? Sad…..