>Oh, and there are other problems as well. There isn’t
>just one kind of racism a flawlessly working
>24/7-hate machine directed against non-Whites but
>many. These racisms form a kind of electromagnetic
>spectrum of tribalist action (why “tribalist”? well,
>isn’t this what racism, at the ground level of person
>to person interaction, really is?).
>
>.d.
I don't see racism as tribalism. Tribalism is what pits Serb against Croat and/or Bosnian but partners them up against Malawians. Tribalism pits Cherokee against Delaware but racism pits the Dutch against them. Racism is primary a European construct in the way it is practiced. Tribalism has existed since societies began to flourish but racism is relatively new in human history. New meaning the last 500 years.
John Thornton