[WS:] I do not think if it is true, but even if it were, that is a pretty self-defeating diagnosis for a social activist or a reformer. If Jim Crow still lives in popular preferences, then chances are he will never die, at least not any time soon.
My diagnosis is different - it is "social market" and cultural consumption based identity on both sides. One a life style and cultural consumption style becomes a defining factor of who we are, people naturally tend to gravitate toward those with similarly define "identities." It is quite visible in social media, among other things. You do not need legal apartheid anymore, "social market" will do a far better job at segregating people.
This diagnosis at least offers a strategy for change. Change cultural identity, and Jim Crow will kick the bucket. Just look at the Army - the first thing they do is to suppress whatever "civilian" identity recruits have, and replace it with the Army identity - teamwork, patriotism and all that. The ideological content of that new identity may be reprehensible, but the approach works - the Army is probably one of the most ethnically integrated institutions in this country.
Wojtek
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:56 PM, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:
> James Heartfield
>
> >From the Daily Mail today
>
> Revealed: The maps that show the racial breakdown of America’s biggest
> cities By David Gardner Last updated at 5:49 PM on 25th September 2010
>
> These are the maps that show the racial breakdown of America’s biggest cities.
>
> Using information from the latest U.S. census results, the maps show
> the extent to which America has blended together the races in the
> nation’s 40 largest cities.
>
> With one dot equalling 25 people, digital cartographer Eric Fischer
> then colour-coded them based on race, with whites represented by pink,
> blacks by blue, Hispanic by orange and Asians by green.
>
> Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1315078/Race-maps-America.html#ixzz10kWjPksf
>
> ^^^^^^^
> The next paragraph of the text of the Daily Mail article above the maps reads:
>
> "The resulting maps may not represent what many might expect Barack
> Obama’s integrated rainbow nation to look like, as many cities have
> clear racial dividing lines."
>
> See my comment at:
>
>
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2009/2009-October/014624.html
>
> [lbo-talk] corporate rationality
> c b cb31450 at gmail.com
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> Eric Beck wrote:
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>
>> Doug knows that blacks make somewhere around two-thirds the
>> amount of money whites do, that blacks are a kajillion times more
>> likely to be in prison, and a whole host of other facts that show that
>> racial minorities have it worse under capitalism
>
> ^^^^ CB: This is true, and it is the effect of White supremacy. But
> the main divisions of the working class that prevent class unity are
> in (racial) residential segregation and (racial) endogamous marriage
> and mating. In other words, de facto , not de jure, Jim Crow still
> exists in the North and the South, the East and the West. "At home",
> the working class is majorly divided. This is what capitalism "needs".
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