Re: new pacifica ED
Joseph Wanzala wrote:
The main question is whether Mr. Guma is an effective and tenacious administrator. The Pacifica network, particularly WBAI, is dire need of . I have done battle with the race essentialists, known in Pacificaland as the ‘Justice and Unity Caucus’ for several years now. I sympathize with some of their ideological tendencies, but part ways with them on governance questions, where many of them seem to think that Pacifica should be run rather like Robert Mugabe’s latter day Zimbabwe (he is a hero to many of them), in other words, to have its management infrastructure lubricated by a rancid stew of corruption with generous dollops of grandiose radical rhetoric thrown in to disguise the stench. To the extent that the race essentialists are complaining about Mr. Guma, it probably has more to do with their fears that he might actually be an honest man - and only incidentally a white one.
I’m inclined to agree with this, though I know nothing about Guma. I do know that some questionable sorts at WBAI are alarmed, which could be a good thing, though you never know.
Doug