On Dec 24, 2007, at 10:39 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> There is ethnic conflict all over, which has nothing to do with
> racism,
> which is the ideology of european (white) supremacy.
That's one definition of racism, one very popular with the one- dimensional types around WBAI, but why does it have to be the only one? What's wrong with calling that "white supremacy" and following the Oxford American Dictionary's definition for the word?
"The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, esp. so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races."
Surely the phenom is widespread enough that it doesn't hurt to have a word for it.
Doug