[lbo-talk] White Supremacy (was Tim Wise)

[Carrol Cox]

DH:  Everyone keeps pointing to racial disparities, which are undeniable
unless you're a reactionary. The point is, what do you do about it? You
can't attack "racism." The legal environment is very different now from the
days of formal segregation. Jumping up and down, pointing and screaming
"racist!" doesn't do squat.

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(Well, it does turn attention away from the material foundations of the
"color line," focusing attention on how isolated individuals think.)

Somehow, 'racially' 'segregated' housing has to be smashed. This was not
accomplished simply by making segregation illegal. (Remember that MLK's
greatest defeat was the failure in desegregating neighborhoods in Chicago.
But as long as those residential patterns remained unchanged the ideology of
racism will remain powerful in the U.S.

Note the "somehow" above. No one has any clear plan for accomplishing that. 

Carrol

P.S.  As I said in an earlier post, there are real problems of language. How
does one organize mass struggles around police outrages without (for popular
purposes) using the word "racism"?