No doubt this is true in some ways. But as someone doing political organizing in New York, I would say that (1) there's much less truth to it than someone without that experience might imagine and (2) it strikes me as quite unhelpful politically. I can't imagine an organizing context in which I'd want to make this argument. Can you? Josh
This is the real point, isn't it? What is the political significance of this research? I come from a country where black and white opinion has been much, much more polarised than this (although paradoxically I think that 'race relations' are less poisonous than they tend to be in the US), and this includes the question of the invasion of Iraq, and yet even in SA I can't see a practical purpose for this information other than highly opportunistic ones - i.e. "I am right just because the historically oppressed agree with me", etc. Tahir