[lbo-talk] black class gap

[ravi]

On Nov 15, 2007, at 1:49 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> And I don't really get why Ehrenreich deserves this sort of contempt,
> but then I admire her as one of the best journalists in the USA. How
> is investigating the life of the working poor, fully aware that one
> is merely a tourist in their world, at all like being a tax evading
> egomaniac?
>

It's because you and I choose to see certain sides of them that  
irritate or endear us to them: you see Bono as a "tax-evading ego  
maniac" (I see him as working in his own manner to address/highlight/ 
alleviate the suffering of millions) and I see Ehrenreich as a  
scientist pomo basher (and you see her as a journalist). We do differ:  
I see Ehrenreich as equally well-minded as Bono or any other humanist  
(and me, FWIW), despite her silliness or style, whereas I suspect you  
have no such view of Bono.

	--ravi