Reply #40: Comparing Rachel Corrie to Michael Schwerner & Andrew Goodman?

[msmcghee]

There seems to be one huge gap in your analysis.

Blacks in Mississippi were engaged in no terrorist campaign to kill white people.

They were not walking onto buses and into night clubs with C4 wrapped around their waists. The had no tunnels under their homes being used to smuggle explosives for that purpose.

Blacks in Mississippi had never claimed that whites had no right to live there nor did they vow to keep killing whites until they were gone from the southern US.

Blacks in Mississippi followed the non-violent principles of Martin Luther King and ended up making solid gains for their people with a minimum of death and destruction on both sides. (That's not to say that racial discrimination in this country has ended and that there's no more injustice to be opposed. There absolutely is.)

I find your comparison quite abhorrent.

Rachel Corrie was a passionate teenager who attached herself to a particular cause. Some would say she chose poorly. I believe she died tragically. I'm not sure how cynically she was being used as a weapon against Israel when she was alive but anyone can see that her death is being used for that purpose now.