Second, black activists have argued that multiculturalism is being used by the State against the united resistance of black people. Ethnicity has divided ‘black’ into Asian, Afro-Caribbean and African, and has slotted these into cultural containers which have nothing to do with the long and rich history of resistance made by black people in their mutual struggles against colonialism and racism in Britain. The ‘culture’ of multiculturalism has all the dynamism of a museum piece, to be preserved and wondered at, no matter how out of kilter with current social and economic reality. The customs and folkways which pass here for ‘culture’ are frozen out of time and place, stereotyped for white comprehension, and thus rendered harmless.
>From: Simon Huxtable <jetfromgladiators at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: [lbo-talk] Re: March 20, 2004, Columbus,OH: A Day That Will Live
>In Infamy
>Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:47:17 +0000 (GMT)
>
>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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