Apr 8, 2012
Carl Dix is a longtime revolutionary and a founding member of the
Revolutionary Communist Party. He is a co-issuer of the Call for
the National Day of Resistance to Stop Mass Incarceration. In 1970,
he was part of the largest mass refusal of U.S. soldiers to go to
Vietnam . In 1996, he co-founded the October 22nd Coalition to Stop
Police Brutality. In 2006, he coordinated the Katrina Hearings of
the Bush Crimes Commission. In 2011, he co-issued a call for a
campaign of civil disobedience to STOP "Stop & Frisk." Most
recently Dix participated a series of dialogues with Cornel West –
"In the Age of Obama: Police Terror; Incarceration; No Jobs;
Mis-Education... What Future for Our Youth" Carl will join us to
talk about Tim Tebow and his outsized notoriety, which is based on
a combination of promoting religious fundamentalism and overhyped
football skills. Last year, with moderate success on the field, Tim
Tebow created a national sensation as the poster-boy fundamentalist
Christian athlete. During the off-season, the Denver Broncos traded
him to the New York Jets. What kind of welcome will Tebow receive
in the Big Apple? One of the main ways in which Tim Tebow
proselytizes for his religious fundamentalism is through continual
and prominent citation of verses from the Bible. Carl will discuss
"Tips for Tim Tebow," an article that suggests some Bible passages
Tebow should cite if he really believes the biblical literalism he
professes to uphold. The article highlights the actual content--the
fundamental worldview, relations, values, and morals--which are
promoted, and indeed insisted upon, in the Bible. These biblical
tips include passages from Deuteronomy, Exodus, Leviticus, Proverbs
and Numbers which uphold slavery, the mass raping of women, the
murder of babies and little children, the killing of homosexuals
and women who are charged with losing their virginity out of
wedlock. If Tim Tebow wants to truly inform people about what the
Bible represents, he should tell them the truth about what it
advocates. Additionally, Carl is involved in the effort to manifest
powerful resistance to mass incarceration on April 19th — the
National Day of Resistance to Stop Mass Incarceration, and he will
bring that, and the vigilante murder of Trayvon Martin, into the
conversation as well.