can't tell if serious, he's a little florid but I don't see anything horribly problematic? let me know what I'm missing if so

I can't take Shea seriously after his pathetic attempt at trying to smear Gerald Horne, especially when it was extremely obvious he didn't actually read the fucking book. And much like the same way Maupin attempted to fedjacket Sakai for being some imaginary figure made up by the feds despite copious interviews done by Sakai and other books he has written, Shea is doing so exclusively for cringey patsoc reasons. Shea and Maupin and Haz and the rest of the patsoc losers do not have a simple answer to this very important question: why has the white working class in the US repeatedly fail to struggle in solidarity with the Black and Indigenous working class?

I'll let one of the comments of his trash post speak for itself:

Comrade, the bottom line for me is the question, "so are working-class Euro/Americans organized against racism or not?" The answer is 'no' at present, which makes the high-energy accusations against Horne's class collaboration thesis more of a distraction to the point of self-deception, even if true. The value of dissecting Horne's work is microscopic, compared to American socialism's centuries-old elephantine contradiction, which is core to his thesis: that progressive forces among working-class Euro/Americans have not been able to successfully organize among their race, despite acknowledging that capitalism uses race to control them as much as it does other racialized groups.

"A final word: progressive, white Americans must succeed in overturning their own racism, in theory and practice, if a successful revolution can be achieved in this country, which will in the process write the final page on Black underdevelopment. Nothing short of a commitment to racial equality and Black freedom such as that exhibited by the militant abolitionist John Brown will be sufficient. Nothing less than the political recognition that white racism is an essential and primary component in the continued exploitation of all American people will be enough to defeat the capitalist class." -- Manning Marable, "How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America"

Critiquing a Black historian's work on class-collaboration will have more credibility when working-class Euro/American centuries-long social and political practices no longer support his thesis.