[lbo-talk] Left Behind: Race and the Second Amendment

[R]

if class is a final determinant in the last instance (which is all too final
for me), do we go by the class one is born into to or getting rich and
"moving to the east side" as the song goes in The Jefferson's sit com?  it's
great to have althusser's input, but i'd suggest people decide for
themselves.

there's no doubt about the social class cosby was born into.

spike lee was born into the "black middle class:"  his mother a teacher who
brought spike up on Langston Hughes, et al, and father a jazz musician who
exposed spike to the jazz greats.  he could have attended the "predominantly
white" school where his mother taught; but he chose the more racially mixed
public school route.  spike chose to attend his father's and grandfather's
alma mater, Morehouse college instead of the range of "white" schools, like
yale, that were available to him.

i guess we have to take people as individuals, doug.  sometimes you can take
the guy out of the neighborhood but you can't always take the neighborhood
out of the guy.  true of cosby, michael moore and probably spike lee.

R

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Left Behind: Race and the Second Amendment


: R wrote:
:
: >spike lee in a CNN interview (ostensibly about his new movie) came out
: >strongly in support of cosby's recent comments -- which he's support
since
: >they were uttered.  he applauded on the air and stated (paraphrasing)
that
: >in the past black kids were unable to read due to poor, segregated
schools;
: >now many can't read and write by choice.  they identify being able to
read
: >with being "white" and attack their fellow students who want to learn for
: >acting and wanting to be "white."  actually, this is old news.
:
: Spike Lee got rich and moved to the Upper East Side. It's tempting to
: think that class is the final determinant in the last instance, or
: however Althusser put it.
:
: Doug
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