[lbo-talk] pictures of Che

[Eric Beck]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Mark Bennett <bennett.mab at gmail.com> wrote:
> Isn't this demonstrative of one the major problems in the U.S., that race in
> particular, and identity politics in general, greatly dilute discussions of
> class issues?

Excuse me for a moment while I vomit. Okay, I'm back. I'd be greatly
interested in hearing how you can go about separating race and class
and gender in a way that's not just theoretical (in the bad sense).
Sure, you can say that race and class and gender are separate, but I
could also say that if Paul Pierce wasn't  6'6", didn't have one of
the great all-time first steps to the basket, and didn't have a killer
midrange and long-range game, I could easily take him in a game of one
on one. But that's only an intellectual exercise and has nothing to do
with the real world, where race and gender and class are tied up in
complex and irreducible ways the same way Pierce's game is all a part
of who he is. Is it just an accident that blacks make 65% as much as
whites, or that women make 85% of what men make?