Ugh. You are killing me on this thread, with your nonsense about ideologies and material bases and other ortho habits.
> Somehow, 'racially' 'segregated' housing has to be smashed. This was not
> accomplished simply by making segregation illegal.
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To me, as long as this conversation exists on the level of status, it's, somehow, both reactionary and progressivist, and useless. Race is one of the lines along which capital recomposes itself, at times the creator of loads of value, at times completely shut out of value production. Pointing out that there is now a black professional class or that elites are more multiculti might be good sociology but it doesn't say anything about how capital functions (it also assumes that those facts are more relevant [economic] than high wealth/income stratification or high incarceration rates). Sure, capitalism might function without racism, but it doesn't in any way. It might also function with nine-foot bunny-people in charge. Should we talk about that too?