[lbo-talk] Obama & the white guys

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Feb 20 13:09:37 PST 2008


On Feb 20, 2008, at 3:55 PM, Julio Huato wrote:


> Then God asks you to state an amount of social power that you'd want
> to have as an honest compensation for the possible disadvantage of
> being born Black vis-a-vis being the median American (i.e. white)
> today.

I read once that Andrew Hacker asks his white students at Queens College how much compensation they'd ask for for having been born black. The average is around $1 million.

Doug



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