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Originally Posted by Jeanfromfillmore
Thank you so much for posting these insights to that book. It really gives an understanding to much of what is happening.
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You're more than welcome.
I think that smearing, slandering, redirection, and clever (and not so clever) propaganda have worked the most.
I kept thinking about Alinsky's airport scenario where the threat was to clog up the restrooms and the statement that often the threat of an action is often worse than the action itself...
If the authorities had been quiet and Alinsky decided to go beyond bluff and bluster, innocent travelers would have been targeted instead of city hall and if the source of the disturbance became known, I believe it would have been counterproductive to Alinsky's goal.
Consider the knuckleheads who blocked "rush hour" traffic on Wilshire Blvd a couple of years ago to lobby for amnesty. All they did was piss off people who may not have been all that sympathetic to begin with.
Or the "Day without a Mexican", May Day", "Mexican labor day" (about 2008?) where the proponents ditched work and school and joined Mexican flag waving marches. There was a huge backlash on that one, from people who were fired to boycott of businesses who supported it.
The kids who were wanting to make a pro amnesty statement by hiking from Sacramento to Bakersfield a few months ago
http://saveourstate.info/showthread.php?t=8263. They disappeared from the public radar quicker than a small fart in a brisk wind.
The clowns not too long ago who insultingly disrupted a governmental meeting, were tossed out, then considered themselves to have conducted "civil disobedience" on the scale of Rosa Parks. All they did was piss off the crowd they disrespected with no personal cost to themselves.
For some reason, they have traditionally had much more success in getting concessions from the educational infrastructure, particularly university level. Rather than having trespassers "occupying" buildings and grounds arrested and prosecuted in addition to expelling them, the various administrations caved. Currently students are now propagandized by the school systems.
The 1968 LAUSD Chicano walk outs are considered to be a great success by those who either directly participated or nostalgically rifle through shoe boxes full of yellowed newspaper clippings from the old school Chicano Movement glory days. However, all it did was to change the racial composition of the LAUSD school board from an exclusively white male board to nearly all Latina members - after more than 40 years the dismal Latino LAUSD graduation rate and educational underachievement remains about the same. In fact, those school board Latinas are now fighting amongst themselves over just whose campuses get what portion of the LAUSD financial pie with no progress on the education front.
[A thread of commentary about the 1968 walkout, drop out rates, LAUSD school board, LA Raza Unida takeover of the school system in Zavala county Texas, education in America, victimization claim, activism, etc here
http://www.fightbackinsac.com/forums...ad.php?t=2788]
So, smearing, slandering, redirection, disinformation and fomenting racial polarization while working within the political structure is the avenue which has paid off from minority racist agenda to numerous incredible events within Obama's presidency.