[Marxism] "Mayor won't proclaim Ike Turner day"

[John Obrien]

How can one state they support Women Rights and still dismiss violence against women as not important?  To honor a known wife beater, has to be a new low on this list, in the year 2007!
> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:40:26 -0400> Subject: [Marxism] "Mayor won't proclaim Ike Turner day"> > I want to solidarize with Ike Turner as an artist, for the moment. I am> glad that the exposure of his brutality to his wife, the also great Tina> Turner, including in the film "What's Love Got to do With It," hasn't> finished off his career. The film was certainly basically true as far as the> way he treated Turner was concerned, but I saw it as problematic, > > At any rate I have no problems with Tina Turner days, Ike Turner days, or> "Ike and Tina" days, which my CD player proclaims all the time. > Fred Feldman> > > Mayor Won't Proclaim Ike Turner Day> Jul 20, 11:23 AM EST> Ike Turner will have the stage, but not the day, when he performs in St.> Louis in September.> > Mayor Francis Slay has turned down a request to make Sept. 2 "Ike Turner> Day." The 75-year-old singer is scheduled to perform that day at the Big> Muddy Blues Festival.> > "We believe there is a zero tolerance for any kind of violence," Brennan> said. "We would not want to honor someone who has publicly stated they have> hit their wife.">