On Jan 15, 2010, at 4:36 AM, Joseph Catron wrote:
> Do any of us really believe that it's possible to be non-racist
> within a certain social relationship, or racist outside of it?
Bingo. But extracting some abstract, essentialist state of mind from those social relations is the essence of the whole "anti-racist" POV. Then, having reified it, you fight it. How you fight it, though, is never really clear.
Doug