[lbo-talk] Re: March 20, 2004, Columbus, OH: A Day That Will Live In Infamy

[Simon Huxtable]

Just a point of clarification: it is not the case that
all non-white people are called blacks in the UK.
Non-white people are grouped as either Black, Asian
(unlike the US, 'Asian' refers to Pakistan/India or
Bangladesh in the UK), Chinese or 'mixed race'. 

Personally, I have never heard - to take a simple
example - of someone of Pakistani origin being called
'black'.

Simon

 
> From: "Joseph Wanzala" <jwanzala at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] March 20, 2004, Columbus,
> 	OH: A Day That Will Live In Infamy
> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 17:23:23 -0800
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> 
> also, for white people to be using the race card
> against Nader is doubly 
> ironic and silly given that he is a non-white person
> himself (in the UK he 
> would be called black as are all non-white people)
> and also because anybody 
> who has any sense of how radical blacks think about
> mainstream politics 
> would know that the pro-con Nader debate is so
> irrelevant. Most serious 
> radical black people are deeply cynical about both
> parties and don't see 
> Bush as significantly different that Clinton or
> anyone else.

	

	

		
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