[lbo-talk] Re: who is jewish

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri May 2 05:09:37 PDT 2003


Mike Ballard wrote:
>
> Who is German? Who is Christian? Who is Hindu?
> Who is Black? Who is White? Who is human?
>
> An old lefty once said to me, "There's only one race,
> the human race."
>
> I think he was on to something there.
>
> Tracing my lineage to Lucy,
> Mike B)
>

Yes, that is true. But unfortunately irrelevant. "Race" exists as a social and political fact of tragic importance, and proofs that it is _not_ a biological fact fail to touch its social/political substance or the ideologies of racism.

Carrol



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