[lbo-talk] Comment on F-9/11

[R]

good, and fair, question.  i'm thinking on a couple of levels, as i started
to explain.  one, is more fair and more equal.  two, equity on a racial and
class basis on a structural level, if i understand your question correctly.
three, a political basis that can't be overturned with charges of "reverse
racism" because it hits all the bases.

i don't know if this is viable or if it will work.  call it what you will.
if it's viable, it will have the effect of affirmative action for everyone
in the US who's deal a rotten hand because they are poor, working class,
racially disadvantaged, etc.  i'd hope it doesn't allow the power elite to
perform its favorite divide and conquer routine; that i won't split the
races as happened after reconstruction.

the "race thing" has pretty much been effaced by the "reverse racism" thing.
i'm not critiquing affirmative action.  i support it and always have.  i'm
saying that where you can't get affirmative action, try what i described.  i
wouldn't call it full employment because i'd see it being used everywhere -- 
in employment, school admissions, you name it.  it's actually, working class
equity.  and, ideally, i'd hope it brings the working class of all races
together.

that's the best i can do for now,

R

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Todd Archer" <todda39 at hotmail.com>
To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 6:55 PM
Subject: [lbo-talk] Comment on F-9/11


: >and affirmative action.  i believe affirmative action was undermined
: >because
: >it was race based.  i know, on the surface, that statement sounds racist.
: >but hear me out.  i'd like to see an affirmative action that's based on
: >need.  one that includes all races.
:
: Then why bother calling it affirmative action?  We could call it, say,
"full
: employment".
:
: But then this effaces the "race thing".  Not something I'd care to get
: behind.
:
: I have an honest question for you, meant in all seriousness: by this
: critique of affirmative action, are you trying for something "fairer" ie
: "more equal"?  Like employment by competitive "merit", rather than
: employment done to correct a "raci-st/-al imbalance" at the structural
: level?
:
: Todd
:
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