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ON RACISM | 08.08.2003 02:02 | Anti-racism | World

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THANKS TO THOSE WHO RESPONDED TO MY PIECE ON RACE PROBLEM IN U.S. I DIDNT MEAN TO IMPLY THAT THERE WERE NO WHITES IN POVERTY, BUT THE MERE FACT THAT I AM EXTREMELY WHITE BUT NOTICIBLY NOT "PURE" WHITE LOOKING I AM STILL EXPERIENCING LOTS OF RACSM IN NORTHWEST PART OF U.S. IN OTER WORDS , I AM OF AMIXED BACKGROUND, AND BELIEVE ME , A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE NOTICE IF THEY DETECT SOME SLIGHT DIFFERENCES FROM EUROPEAN FEATURES. EVEN SOME PEOPLE WITH MEDITERRANEAN BACKGROUND ARE ASHAMED OF TELLING ANYBODY ABOUT IT> AND SOME OF THESE GREEK AND ITALIAN DESCENDED HAVE BLONDISH TYPE HAIR!! THEY ARE THAT RACE CONSCIOUS HERE> IMAGINE HOW AVISIBLY BLACK PERSON OR NOT SO VISIBLY "BLACK" MUST STRUGGLE TO COPE WITH THIS PURITANICAL INSANITY>

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08.08.2003 11:21

What I was pointing out was that the woefull position of *some* blacks in the US (and dont say its all as *some* are fully part of the exploiters) isnt actually down to a psychological reaction to their pigmentation (obviously racism has been historically inculcated into the 'lower orders' to paper over class tension etc)...
...and part of illustrating that was to draw attention to that most ignored of groups: the white poor...because most activists are white and middle class they tend to think that *all* whites are such ignoring the reality that rich white are a tiny minority of the overall white population...
i could have used other examples..such as that the first slaves were white not black...so long as activists push the myth that the situation of blacks in the us is down to some abstract motive then nothings going to change....sadly theres a lot of silly people out there who cant read the word 'white' without seeing 'evidence' of murderous extreme hitlerism to the nth degree!

John Brown