The Color of Money

Gordon Fitch gcf at panix.com
Mon Dec 4 08:49:55 PST 2000


Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote: >
> > I agree that it's no easy undertaking. The point I
> > would like to
> > emphasize on this list at this point is, though,
> > that it would take a
> > political struggle of on the order of World War 2 or
> > (as you note) an
> > even greater one to abolish racism.

Daniel Davies:
> hrrrrmmmm ... isn't the key to this whole thing the
> phenomenon that Public Enemy identified on the Fear of
> a Black Planet album .... that the combination of a
> white person plus a black person tends to produce a
> black person. Given the utter intractability of the
> theoretical and practical issue, why bother to
> struggle against a problem which is likely to be
> smoothed out by Brownian motion over the next couple
> of hundred years?

If Whiteness is an artifice it can be continually recreated. It's been noted before that in America the Irish, Italians, Jews, and some East Asian nationalities have recategorized from Not-White to Not-Quite-White to White. Arabs seem to have generally moved in the other directions.



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