--- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote (emendations added):
"(we)should consider whether (our) indiscriminate attack on the south is not just a way of coming to terms (or rather avoiding coming to terms)with the racism of the north"
It's called scapegoating -- projecting one's own bad acts and thoughts on other people.
BobW
>
>
> andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> >
> > And Southern black people aren't Southern? Unlike
> > Carl, who, in a metaphysically weird manner
> creates a
> > Southern culture that has no black contribution,
> the
> > blacks who lived down south longer than most
> whites
> > were just aliens "reacting" to white southern
> culture,
>
> Southern "white" culture would have been
> fundamentally 'focused' as it
> were by the "black problem." This perception seems
> to be the informing
> drive of the works of Faulkner. Some (white) writer,
> I forget who, told
> of his grandmother in her old age having nightmares
> that the blacks were
> coming to punish her for her racist misdeeds.
> (That's not phrased the
> way the writer phrased it, but the memory was dim
> and I had forgotten it
> completely until I typed the first two sentences of
> this paragraph.
>
> And in this sense "Southern White" culture is
> American White Culture,
> for that culture is unintelligible abstracted from
> the "peculiar
> institution," which has remained equally peculiar to
> the present in its
> post-emancipation forms.
>
> Carl should consider whether his indiscriminate
> attack on the south is
> not just a way of coming to terms (or rather
> avoiding coming to terms)
> with the racism of the north, of his family, and of
> his culture.
>
> Carrol
>
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