> My remedy for "white" folks is that through struggle and
> sacrifice, they gleefully abandon their membership in the "white" race
> and join the human race, at which point they might actually discover
> "soulfulness." The notion that there is such a thing as a "white race" is
> a powerful mythology that flies in the face of good science, obfuscates
> history and frustrates attempts to build lasting solidarity among
> un-free people, working and otherwise. Being "white" is about enjoying,
> or expecting, relative entitlements, priviledges, and power.
White skin privilege is about the fact that police in LA don't stop me for no reason even though I've got long hair and beard. There's no way for me to get rid of white skin privilege by any change of consciousness, or any form of political activism.
All I CAN do is dye my skin, as in "Black Like Me."
Is this what you're talking about, Niles?
Or is this just the same old lame 60's, "let's beat up on liberal whitey cause cracker whitey will fry our ass" bullshit that did so much to further the revolution?
-- Paul Rosenberg Reason and Democracy rad at gte.net
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