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

mjs at smithbowen.net mjs at smithbowen.net
Fri Jul 12 10:07:49 PDT 2013



> I think it is primarily housing patterns (which determines school
> distribution) and the War on Drugs that are the primary material bases of
> racist ideology. And the _causal_ pattern is _from_ housing _to_ "racism,"
> not the other direction. The effect of the ideology is to create mass
> _comfort_ with the social realities that cause the ideology. And there is
> no
> way of "getting at" that vicious (and often "unconscious") ideology EXCEPT
> by focusing on the institutions and social relations which generate it.

I think Carrol has nailed it here.



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