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

[robert wood]

We have also seen substantial transformation of racism as an ideological
formation, often moving from biological to cultural forms  of racism.  I
certainly understand that racism needs to be challenged in institutional
locations, but this is often the work of anti-racist activists.  I'm not
sure why recognizing that these various institutional sites produce an
ideological field is such a problematic idea.  I don't think that Wise's
problem is the label of anti-racism, but the fact that his way of
alleviating is fairly close to a kind institutionalized multiculturalism,
which is largely discredited in radical political communities.  robert wood

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 4:28 PM, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:


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> To say that something has changed radically in 50 years isn't to say it's
> gone, you know.
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> OK.  Let's do a tally:
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> Legal segregation? Gone.
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> De-facto segregation in schools and real-estate: well and thriving.
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> Misegynation laws? Gone.
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> Mixed race couples able to rent apartments, when they both show up to
> look????
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> De-facto segregation of employment? well and thriving.
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> Racial profiling? well and thriving.
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> Incarceration? booming. (One might want to argue that incarceration is
> better than lynching. But I suspect most would prefer a beating to ten
> years in jail.)
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> Voting rights? Declining due to recent SCOTUS decision and
> disenfranchisement due to incarceration.
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> Educational opportunities? Declining.
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> Social support? Welfare, medical, work training? Declining. (Yeah, that's
> for everybody, but minorities have proportionally greater need.)
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> That's off the top of my head. Others can pitch in.
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> Joanna
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