[lbo-talk] Are Conservatives Racist?

[Carrol Cox]

Radical housing segregation still exists. There is a high black 
population in the prisons. Arabs & Latinos are both obviously a bunch of 
terrorists.

The politics of the TP and the poltics of the republican Party are 
pretty identical; TP's only excuse for existence is tyhe shock of a 
BlackPresident. Bertell Ollman has an essay, It hink published by now, 
on this.

One _starts_ one's political analysis of the U.S. with the premise that 
racism is fundamental.. That's a necessary premise. *DEbate has to go on 
within the framework provided by that premise. Left politics would be a 
lot simpler were it not for the omnipresence of racism and its material 
foundations in U.S. life and thought.

The chief symptom of racism on the left is the failure to take seriusly 
the intellectual and theoretical importance of the Black Panthers.

  (Racsm an ideology that  explains an obvious fact, the existecne of a 
visible underclass, a large number of whom are in prison.)

Carrol