[lit-ideas] Re: Pinch Michael Moore
- From: "Julie Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 07:26:00 -0600
(muttering a pre-coffee "bravo")
I'm so glad there are people who can articulate....
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 4:04 AM, Simon Ward <sedward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Simon: This [electing a black president] is a big thing.
>
> It's not suffiicent to say that race is exclusively self proclaimed when
> race is also defined by the kind of societal ills mentioned in my previous
> post. Racism isn't just a personal hatred of people with different coloured
> skin, it's also the existence of societal deprivations that can be
> categorised by the colour of that skin. Sure there's going to be a black
> president and yes there's black lawyers and judges and legislators, but
> there are still black (and hispanic) ghettos.
>
> Get rid of the ghettos and you'll get rid of racism. You can't just wish it
> away by telling people to ignore skin colour.
>
> [...]
>
> Electing Barack Obama wasn't affirmative action!
>
> Simon
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Julie Krueger
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