Sure, he probably is white. At the same time, there is a design flaw with having the prevalence of and solutions to ick-ism being declared exclusively by Ick civil rights leaders (where Ick is some value that could be, but is not limited to "sex", "race", "Semite", "Mormon", and so on). We can hardly expect Jesse Jackson to let us know when racism has been eradicated and then fire himself, nor should we expect sensitive white males to say "Yes sir, I'll get right on that" when every charge has been filed.
I think it would be pretty clear to establish in New Orleans that rich blacks got out and poor whites couldn't, and so the charges of racism in this instance strike me as both false and insulting. It seems like it should be cleansing for people like Laura Bush to stand up and say essentially "Fuck you" to people who make such spurious claims. There IS racism in our society, but we'd be better able to work on it if people stopped clouding the waters with false positives.
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Date: 2005-09-09 05:11 pm (UTC)I think it would be pretty clear to establish in New Orleans that rich blacks got out and poor whites couldn't, and so the charges of racism in this instance strike me as both false and insulting. It seems like it should be cleansing for people like Laura Bush to stand up and say essentially "Fuck you" to people who make such spurious claims. There IS racism in our society, but we'd be better able to work on it if people stopped clouding the waters with false positives.