[lbo-talk] white Americans think Kanye West is wrong

jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net
Tue Sep 20 14:48:31 PDT 2005


Cmde Lacny opined:

> Doug Henwood quotes Gallup:

>

> > just [sic!] 21% of blacks believe Bush cares about

> > them

> >

> > Overall, just [sic!] 14% of blacks approve of the job

> > Bush is doing as president

>

> Those figures are disturbingly high. What did they do, poll Armstrong

> Williams 25 times?

What makes you think that blacks are a unified community with no class

distinction, holding uniform political views?

It is not really about skin color or cultural heritage but about class. The

skin color happened to be the manifestation and the marker of class

divisions in the US. It is not that there are inequalities because there

are racial divisions in the US, but the other way around - racial divisions

are created by class divisions. If there were no blacks in the US, the

class divisions would still be there, only manifested differently, perhaps

by ethnicity (Eastern European? Mediterranean? Asian? Latino?) perhaps by

residence (North vs South? Urban vs rural?) perhaps by look (slim vs obese,

blonde vs dark or perhaps having the "wrong" shape of the nose), or perhaps

simply by possession.

Wojtek

Do you really believe this or are you baiting someone? You can't really believe that:

"It is not that there are inequalities because there are racial divisions in the US, but the other way around - racial divisions are created by class divisions." (Wojtek)

I would really like to have you elaborate upon this. I am having a hard time imagining you really think this.

John Thornton



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