--- On Wed, 11/5/08, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
> From: Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Paradox in Black and White
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Cc: "Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition" <marxism at lists.econ.utah.edu>
> Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 9:08 AM
> Last night, and in the weeks before, numerous celebrants in
> the media commented sagaciously how the president-elect
> would never have risen like a soufflé if He had not been
> Black. Oddly, there was not a single voice to remark that
> He would not have had a chance if He had not been White.
>
>
> Shane Mage
>
> > This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> > always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> > kindling in measures and going out in measures."
> >
> > Herakleitos of Ephesos
>
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