[lit-ideas] Re: Pinch Michael Moore's Millions

But again if you want to pick up
the lens of racism, what about Eskimos ... I mean Inuits? They're at the very bottom of the poverty scale here. Nobody takes up that group's banner and boldly carries it forth. 

(You mean Inuit?  You don't want to talk about the Yupiks and Aleuts?)
but then they shouldn't -- according to you -- should they? (take up the banner, that is) after all, that would be to talk about *race*, wouldn't it? and according to you, that's not supposed to happen.
Yet this all tribal talk, and I still think the insistence on tribal talk does more to keep ghettos in place than would dealing with poverty regardless of race.
First I agree it's true -- trivially, I add -- that 'tribal talk' keeps ghettos in place. (See the link I posted.) But 'tribal talk', as I have tried to argue/show, is also an artefact of white power, of the power of the group whose identity politics is invisible. The history of the black civil rights movement i n the US is one of a belief in integration, an attempt at breaking down ghettos; replaced for some while, for some, by an embrace of 'ghettos' in the face of the refusal of white people to integrate. (Cf Chicago Open Housing Act, subversion thereof.) (And then black power and black nationalism -- you may have lacked the opportunity I had, and took, to hear Malcolm X speak.) It's true also that in 'ghettoising' many black people in the US have simply followed earlier groups who made their way in US society by 'hyphenating', made their way as a group... -- it makes sense. 

But please don't go on about the race card.  It's ugly.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Yost" <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> 
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Judy: the only sense I can make of your last clauses is this: more black people than white people are poor.
Yes, and more Latinos. But again if you want to pick up the lens of racism, what about Eskimos ... I mean Inuits? They're at the very bottom of the poverty scale here. Nobody takes up that group's banner and boldly carries it forth.
Yet this all tribal talk, and I still think the insistence on tribal talk does more to keep ghettos in place than would dealing with poverty regardless of race. 
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