>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Re: Blum on rebuilding Afghanistan
>Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 09:25:40 -0500
>
>Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>>Mina's point seems about as unobjectionable as a statement that most
>>children under 16 attend school.
>
>Years ago, I had a conversation with a Dominican woman who was a
>student at Harvard Law School. Her tales of how racist and
>patronizing her fellow students were shocked me, and changed the way
>I saw the world. Most white folks, like me, have no direct experience
>of what that's like. To a white observer, day-to-day racial tensions
>in NYC are much less severe than they were 10 years ago. I was
>interested in hearing some less optimistic testimony of what's been
>said and heard. The only self-evident truths exist in catechisms and
>the Declaration of Independence.
The one time we met, you asked me the same question, and I described some of my own and friends' experiences, so I'm not sure why you would ask again, nor for that matter, ask in such a unpleasant, dismissive manner. I would like to give this the response it deserves, but I'm in the awkward position of also doing some work for you, and I know dangerous it is for someone waiting for paymet to be truthful about these things. If you wish to ask yet again after a check is received (and clears!), I will give you another response.
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