renouncing whiteness
Brad DeLong
delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Tue Nov 28 17:00:47 PST 2000
> >>> cniles at wanadoo.fr 11/28/00 12:23PM >>>
>
>> CB: What does the word "voodoo" come from ? Isn't it an
>>ironically racist usage given that Bush attributed it to Reagan
>>when they were campaigning against each other, and both of them
>>were big time white racists, who had nothing to do with African
>>voodum ?
>
>i would say anti-black usage, charles, to be more precise, but right
>on otherwise.
No. Voudun is not an effective form of medicine. Supply-sidism is not
an effective form of economic policy.
To pretend that voudun *is* an effective form of medicine is anti-human.
Brad DeLong
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