[lbo-talk] Racism is normal (Bruce Dixon)

John Thornton jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net
Fri May 23 14:51:06 PDT 2008


shag posted:
> Likewise the Obama campaign's strategy on race toward
> whites is to carefully avoid telling white people anything other than what
> they imagine they already know. With frank discussions of race, power and
> privilege off the table, talk on the subject is limited to the terrain of
> racism as bad manners.

Am I misremembering that addressing institutional racism was part of Jesse Jackson's campaigns in '84 and '88?

John Thornton



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