[lbo-talk] Sowell on "black rednecks"

[joanna]

He's not really saying the South stinks. He's saying poor white trash 
stinks. As Chuck Grimes pointed out, he's not especially saying anything 
about the current administration, which is cut out of the same cloth and 
finds its constituency there.

Basically it's another spin on the white-trash/n-word formula, which has 
been playing  in this country for a long time.

Joanna

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


>Kelley:
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>>But no. Sowell pretends that it's all reducible to culture, going after
>>poor whites in the south is simply a way for him to legiiimate his shit
>>about blacks. In either case, he's a racist, through and through. His is a
>>cultural racism.
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>What is so racist in arguing that the South stinks? 
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>Wojtek
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