On Cultural Privilege

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Jan 12 17:42:26 PST 2000


"Peter K." wrote:


> (Rocker is a 25 year old ace pitcher for the Braves. His brain's filtering
> mechanism doens't work too well and he recently unloaded a racist diatribe
> on a Sports Illustrated journalist.)
>

Embarassed by such rank and open expression of racims in its most ignorant form, the network fired Jimmy the Greek from his job. Any fool, the network must have decided, should know that such things may be spoken in the privacy of the locker- room in an all-white club, but not into a microphone and before a camera.

Barbara Fields, "Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States"

Carrol



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