----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Claxton" <ddclaxton at earthlink.net>
At 08:58 PM 8/18/2011, Joanne Landy wrote:
>The way of looking at it has to be that escalating racism is an
>integral part of what makes the right wing so dangerous today.
Escalating how?
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1. Schools are currently as segregated as they were in the early sixties.
2. Minorities have been disenfranchised through mass incarcertaion that guarantees the loss of voting rights in many states.
3. The re-definition of lynching as law and order. The exploding prison population. Perhaps the only thing that has moved from the private to the public realm has been lynching, by way of the same mass incarcertion program noted above.
4. The dismantling of quotas which, flawed as they might have been, allowed some small number of minorities an education or a job. This of course in the name of the free market.
Yes, interracial marriage is permitted and a black man is president; but these pale compared to 1-4.
Joanna