>This is the voice of Booker T. Washington: "Never mind the
>objective political economic conditions. Let's all be me and show
>the world how mainstream we are. Then, they'll help us."
>
>Bunk. 21st-century racism is 95 percent a by-product of class
>structures built in the past four centuries. Change the employment
>and income situation, and our grandchildren will treat each other
>well. Fail to change them, and our grandkids will be repeating
>these hopeless tropes about role-models, etc.
I completely agree with you that "21st-century racism is 95 percent a by-product of class structures built in the past four centuries." As long as a large segment of Black workers get structurally stuck in the reserve army of labor, racism will continue to exist, to rationalize and justify the class structure. No small change in "the employment and income situation," though, will suffice to destroy the material foundation of racism. Where to go from here? -- Yoshie
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