[lbo-talk] zimmerman not guilty

[Carrol Cox]

Yes. Let me repeat an earlier remark which, I believe, no one responded to:
At the level of agitation we cannot give up the slogan, Fight Racism. This
is not incompatible _at all_ with recognizing, at the level of fundamental
theory that Racism is an ideology and ideologies  cannot be directly
opposed.  The jury's decision is a glaring case of the kind of activity
which produces and reproduces racist ideology. Zimmerman's action,
incidentally, was made possible by housing patterns. Stop-and-Frisk police
activity produces and reproduces the ideological myth that being Black is
itself a ground for suspicion. The Zimmerman Jurors would almost certainly
deny (and believe their own denial) that Zimmerman's act was self-defense
because a Black out of his proper place is obviously a serious threat.

Carrol


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> 
> Marv Gandall said what I believe to be true. Thanks for saying it. People
who
> harped about it not being 1957 (an obvious and unremarkable point to
> make) now cry tears for Trayvon Martin and say what a racist society we
live
> in. Yes, we do. If you know anything at all about this country, you know
that
> race, and yes, racism, are still flashpoints here. It is foolish to
present data on
> the improvement in black college graduation rates compared to whites,
going
> back to 1970, and then not do the same for incarceration and post
> incarceration rates for blacks and whites. Saying instead that
incarceration
> rates are falling, slowly. Wow, that is really something. It is, indeed, a
less
> racist society than it used to be, but racism is alive and well among
millions of
> people here. And greater equality, better employment policies, national
> healthcare, will not end this. Race-specific actions and policies are and
will be
> needed. Ask a question: do you think there is a black person in the !
>  US who hasn't experienced a race-specific degradation? And knows it too.
> Isn't that more important than bashing Tim Wise?
> 
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