On Jul 12, 2013, at 1:07 PM, mjs at smithbowen.net wrote:
>> 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.
Seconded.