>Doug:
> >Peace of mind, of a sort. As in, "I may have a crappy job and not a
> >pot to piss in, but at least I'm not black!"
>
>This feeling of racial compensation may still remain, but post-affirmative
>action racists argue, "You have a crappy job because you are not black,
>because unqualified blacks got special rights that you don't have."
Which is not unrelated to the other part of the racist formula, emphasized by Roediger, that the despised group is having more fun. You don't have to be a Freudian (though it helps) to see jealousy lurking in white racist discourse about black sexuality, for example.
Doug