From lnp3@columbia.edu  Thu Apr  3 21:40:14 1997
From: lnp3@columbia.edu (Louis N Proyect)
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 16:40:14 -0500 (EST)
Subject: M-TH: Buffalo Revolutionaries
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Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95L.970403163135.9255A-100000@aloha.cc.columbia.edu>

On Thu, 3 Apr 1997 Braderr@aol.com wrote:

>  
> Brad: And where are your "facts" to back up these allegations.  As a reader
> 

Louis: Wait a second. Ralph Dumain is *definitely* from Buffalo. That much
is true. He was a well known African-American activist with a thriving
mortuary business in the 1950s. He was sponsor of the now defunct Buffalo
Simbas, a first-class football team in a black semi-professional league.
You could always spot Ralph in the stands 2 or 3 rows behind the team,
with a hot-dog with everything on it in one hand and a tome by Hegel in
the other.

Later he moved to Washington where he is known as the conscience of the
black community. He, along with Stanley Crouch, has taken a forceful stand
against rap music and multiculturalism. This has earned him the enmity of
other African-Americans, but Dumain wends his lonely way. Twenty years
>from now he will be mentioned in the same breath as other great
African-American leftists such as DuBois or CLR James.

Right, Ralph?




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