>From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Re: Civil Rights & Liberties or "White Privileges"? Re: Green
>Party official busted at gunpoint
>Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2001 18:28:56 +0000
>
>Bravo, Yoshie! It's absolutely lethal, also stupid, to denigrate civil
>liberties as "white skin privilege." It's outrageous when anyone is denied
>due process and in fact reasonable respect, and there should be no smirking
>when a white middle class person is abused, any more than there should be
>indifference when a poor black person is.
No one has denigrated civil liberties as white privelege. Some people have denigrated Ms. Oden's surprise as white privilege.
Bravo, Yoshie from me too, because what Yoshie said was admirably nuanced.
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