[lbo-talk] Are Conservatives Racist?

[Miles Jackson]

On 08/19/2011 07:20 PM, Julio Huato wrote:
>
> That is to be expected, because we all are a product of circumstances.
>   But if you want your effort to bear fruit, you have to be willing to
> shed your prejudices.  And it is the role of people in these movements
> to help you set yourself straight when your prejudices get in the way.
>   These exercises in personal interaction can be very rough
> emotionally, and if the personal commitment is not very strong, people
> will waver and be tempted to withdraw back into their comfort zone,
> which is obviously a painful loss for both sides.

I've gone around about this with Julio before, but I feel compelled to 
point out that this is exactly backwards.  It is not  "shedding your 
prejudices" that will allow you to contribute to political struggles to 
overcome racism; it is the political struggles that will transform 
individual prejudices.   In an oblique way, Julio's post reiterates SA's 
fallacious position: racism is an idea in individuals' heads.

Miles