>>> Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> 10/19/99 12:33PM >>>
Johannes Schneider wrote:
> In his acceptance speech he complained, that the holocaust is
> still remembered publicly in Germany. ( OK, thats a little bit polemical ).
> In the end his speech could be summed up by saying that the Germans will
> never forgive the Jews because of the holocaust.
This throws important light on the material grounds of racist ideology. It is in fact much easier for the wronged to forgive those who wronged them than it is for the latter to forgive the former. The rising racist tide in the U.S. over the last two decades can be partly explained by whites being unable to forgive blacks for allowing whites to oppress them.
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Charles: I think of it more as whites knowing how wrong they were and fearing some kind of just retribution if they admit how wrong they were (and are).
CB