----- Original Message ----- From: "ChrisD(RJ)" <chrisd at russiajournal.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 11:52 PM Subject: RE: What's wrong with black markets?
> Ian said:
>
> Not much, just the utter racism of the term and the need to look at the
> construct
> of legality from the perspectives afforded by Charles Tilly and Morton
> Horwitz,
> among others....
> ----------------
> Huh? Racism? I had assumed "black" referred simply to being invisible, as in
> at night. Same reason evil is associated with the color black, because nasty
> critters and things can sneak up on you.
>
> Chris Doss
> The Russia Journal
==================== Black markets is the modern term for contraband [contrabbando] usage of which arose during the Spanish control of Italy during the time of the Inquisition, which killed lots of non-whites and whites who were marketing heretical texts etc.
Ian