> 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.