File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/marxism-international.9712, message 96


Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 22:24:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Justin Schwartz <jschwart-AT-freenet.columbus.oh.us>
Subject: M-I: Boxing



Being sort of an honorary Detroiter, since I went to Michigan and worked
in Motown for two summers at the National Lawyer's Guild law center and
the United Auto Workers, I'll remark on Louis P's outburst against boxing
that in Joe Louis' hometown we see boxing as a sport in which Black men
beat white men and Nazis, who may not qualify as "men" at all, into
unconsciousness.   

We also have an annual Eugene V. Debs Memorial Kazoo night at Tiger
Stadium (owned, alas, by the repulsive Tom Moynahan, he of Domino's Pizza,
Operation Rescue,a nd the Honduran strategic hamlets) in which all the
lefties in town come out to the bleachers with our kazoos and irritate the
regulars by singing revolutionary songs and refusing to stand for tha
national anthem. The slogan is, Stick It to Capitalistic Tools. I should
say the male lefties do this. It's largely a he-man, auto workerish sort
of thing to do, lots of beer, tattoos, crude jokes. We PC types from Ann
Arbor always feel vaguely uncomfortable at this event.

I myself am not much into competitive sports, but I havea  soft spot in my
heart for hopeless baseball teams like the Tigers (and the Cubbies, in
Chicago, where I'm heading) and for boxing. Does taht mean I should sign
up with the Brit RCP?

--Justin  




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