At 08:48 PM 7/14/2013, Marv Gandall wrote:
>On 2013-07-14, at 4:22 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> >
> > On Jul 14, 2013, at 4:01 PM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Michael Smith might want to reconsider his comment: "I find harping
> about racism (or, worse yet, 'structural racism') so tiresome and retro..."
> >
> > I'm going to say this for like the 100th time, you can don hoodies and
> hold memorials and solidarity actions and it won't do a damn thing to
> change Florida law.
>
>This discussion hasn't been about tactics. You're caricaturing, in quite
>an offensive manner, the behaviour of the many hundreds of thousands of
>demonstrators who have turned out in recent years to protest overt
>expressions of racism such as police shootings in black ghettoes,
>anti-hispanic legislation in Arizona and other states, and white vigilante
>actions against Muslim mosques and other institutions. These men and women
>almost universally did not wear hoodies nor did they, as you indelicately
>put it earlier, "jump up and down, pointing and screaming racist."
>Moreover, no one disagrees that deep reforms are needed in employment,
>housing, education, immigration and other state policies to effectively
>attack the social inequities which disproportionately affect these racial
>and ethnic minorities. We disagree, however, in that I don't see these
>demonstrations as a waste of time but, as history has repeatedly shown, an
>essential spur to legislative progress on all these front!
> s.
>
>In any case, as I said, this discussion hasn't been about tactics. Put
>plainly, it's been over whether racism is still deeply embedded in
>American society or whether the issue has become "tiresome" (Michael
>Smith), "irrelevant" (Wojtek) and "way out of date" (your words).
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