WSJ on A16

Gordon Fitch gcf at panix.com
Thu Apr 6 09:00:30 PDT 2000


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



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