Doug Henwood wrote:
>> You don't agree that white supremacy is an ongoing structural feature of US capitalism?
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> In what sense? Inequality has been increasing, and bad shit has been happening to the below-median portion of the population for decades now. That below-median share is disproportionately black, for sure, but there are plenty of whites and others there too, and attributing the bad shit to "white supremacy" isn't very precise
^^^^^^^^ CB: For being so smart, you sure do play dumb a lot. "White supremacy" refers to the fact , not the cause of the fact. The fact is in most statistical measures of quantity and quality of life - not just income/wealth, but life expectancy , morbidity, educational attainment, residence, et al ( the one exception might be enjoying merriment)- People of color have lower "scores". "Plenty of whites and others there too" is really playing dumb since you know full well its the disproportionality that white supremacy refers to.
The cause of the fact of white supremacy is the historical institutions of slavery and Jim Crow, whose legacy persists even as those actual systems have been dissembled.
Denial of historical causes in the present is one reason the ruling class is attacking education to reduce the teaching of history and other subjects such as English which inherently teach history.