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#23 Whose America?, pt. 2: Inner City Blues

The Martyr Made Podcast

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McCorray and the Teachers Union: A Strategic Mistake

UFT teachers across the city walked off the job in protest, promising to shut down schools until fired teachers were back in their classrooms. McCorray's strategy of getting militants to focus on the teachers' Jewishness was a huge tactical mistake. By choosing that path, he transformed a conflict that in other circumstances would have been framed as blacks versus whites into a fight between blacks and Jews.

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