My comment in 2015 on racism and censorship in the Brown Daily Herald

October 7, 2015 at 10:11 pm As a democratic Socialist I have always thought anti-racism is inseparable from class struggle issues. I just read Brown professor’s Ken Miller’s opinion column ( October 31,2013 ) on his vivid memory of American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell’s controversial ( to say the least ) speech at Brown University on November 30, 1966. Miller clearly thinks it is important to know the beast because IT CAN HAPPEN HERE . Even right wing Donald Trump reminds this 60s ” radical ” of the Sinclair Lewis Depression Era novel about how fascism can come to America. The removal of an ” offensive ” column only arouses my curiosity about the author. If his column invites COMMENT -like right here- why the panic over obnoxious views ? Saner , more informed minds can always check any pernicious column or article even in a student newspaper. Does a self appointed moral elite get to decide the limits of tolerance for different views ? Could Black Muslim Malcolm X speak on your campus today ? A lot of haughty anti-racist academics -rather curiously-have no quarrel with the capitalist system. Malcolm X linked capitalism with racism : ” Show me a capitalist and I’ll show you a blood sucker “, Malcolm said. Was he a hater too ? Malcolm told blacks kids in Harlem : you must above all think for yourself. Good advice for Ivy League scholars. in Bey-o speramusOctober 8, 2015 at 5:49 pm Are these actual questions you’d like answers for or are they rhetorical questions that are supposed to get at something, I legitimately cannot tell. Ron RuggieriOctober 8, 2015 at 6:05 pm Should you think for yourself about controversial matters ? Highly rhetorical question ! I guess the only thing I am getting at is freeing a new generation from ruling class prejudice and censorship. Show me a first rate mind whose FEELINGS are hurt by any claptrap . Do you think that the ruling class has no influence on the venerable Brown Daily Herald ? [ http://radicalrons.blogspot.com]