Joanna
Miles Jackson wrote:
>I don't know if this is the same thing that Luke notices, but consider:
>if white people live in our society, something that makes our society
>worse off makes whites worse off. --e.g., if there is a huge reserve
>army of disadvantaged minority workers, that takes the teeth out of
>white workers' strike threats. --if African Americans are selectively
>imprisoned in huge numbers, that increases the tax burden on whites.
>--if racial antagonisms divide the working class, all poor workers
>suffer, regardless of race.
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>I'll side with Oliver Cox on this one: racism in the U. S. is
>an ideology that benefits the wealthy and powerful, not whites
>per se. --I'd go so far as to say that poor whites would be
>better off, in economic and social terms, if racism did not
>exist in our society. (And wealthy, conservative African
>Americans would be worse off, because they'd have fewer desperate
>minority proles working for shit wages.)
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