> > >No, I said race does not refer; in that respect it is like phlogiston.
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>> If you meant to say that race doesn't _explain_, instead of saying
>> "race doesn't refer," I might agree, but I gather that's not what you
>> mean.
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>> Yoshie
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>If it doesn't refer how can it explain? So we do agree :-).
As far as the idea of the "white working class" goes, yes. What of black workers, however? How do you analyze racial oppression without referring to blacks as a race? How do you correct racial oppression without referring to blacks as a race? How do you think blacks -- whether as black workers or as black people -- can organize themselves without any reference to blacks as a race?
Yoshie