...This notion of white supremacy is way way out of date - which, of course, doesn't stop people from robotically reciting it as if nothing has changed since 1957.
^^^^^ CB: Gee the person who wrote this bases it on rip roaring racial diversity in an one old WASP school. How anecdotal. This person must be living in an isolated rich, suburb or something.
As to "nothing has changed since 1957", yea the white supremacist majority of the US Supreme Court just turned things back to at least 1965. Just about every week some outrageously racist statement is made by some tea Republican or other. State of Michigan is taking away the vote in local elections from its majority Black cities. Who does this person think they are kidding ?
^^^^^^^^^ Marv Gandall
Sorry if you think I was being unfair. I understood the context, and replied that "overt expressions of racism are no longer acceptable, particularly among urban liberal professionals. But though the culture is now more tolerant and opportunities have opened up for educated blacks, the economic disparities between blacks and whites, characteristic of the class system since slavery, not only persist, but seem to have markedly widened since the purported end of white supremacy." The discrediting of boorish country club racism and efforts at diversity are positive developments, but have also served to obscure the continuing deeper structural manifestations of racism in the economy and in politics. I was reacting to that, and particularly to the scornful and mocking barbs directed at Charles for suggesting as much
********* CB: I gotta find em so I can mock em back.