WSJ on A16

[Gordon Fitch]

Carl Remick wrote:
> > The Wall Street Journal has a sly, snide front-age piece, "Wanted: Persons
> > of Color to Battle Evil World System," on the Mobilization for Global
> > Justice's efforts to shut down the WB/IMF meetings in Washington April 16
> > and 17.  Key sentence:  "While the antiglobalization crowd purports to speak
> > for people of color world-wide, here in the U.S., the protesters themselves
> > tend to be people of pallor."  I'd post the whole article but don't have
> > access to the WSJ website.

Chuck0:
> If they'd bother to come to some of our meetings, they would see quite a
> few people of color there. True, they aren't all African Americans, but
> we're doing better in the diversity department. I imagine that in the
> WSJ's point of view, anybody who isn't an African American is white.
> 
> What's the pallor of the World Bank directors these days?

I was thinking the same thing -- that the haute-bourgeoisie
must still be pretty pallid.  So we and they could abuse one
another for insufficient pigmentation.  It _is_ a new world,
isn't it?

Gordon