[Marxism] America's deep-seated racism

[Lajany Otum]

Louis Proyect writes:

<<Sayan Bhattacharyya wrote:
> Why do you say this? The message I got from the posted comment was
> that something has indeed changed -- i.e those African-Americans below
> 40 react in a *different* way from those above 40 (i.e. they *don't*
> walk through Macy's in the I-can't-touch-anything way, *don't* put
> their hands automatically on the wheel when stopped, etc). If racism
> remained just as it was before, the younger African-Americans too
> would have developed a similar set of reflexes as the author described
> their parents to have developed, but they (according to the article)
> have not done so.

But you have to take the entire exchange into account. Today an entire 
generation of young Black people are being denied access to well-paying 
jobs. Massive unemployment is just as brutal as Jim Crow.>>

Not to mention the possibility of being executed on the spot for the crime of 
driving while black (which was mentioned in the exchange), or the preferred
access that the African American population is given to the expanding 
prison industrial complex -- the only sort of affirmative action of which there
seems to be no criticism in the US. 

Lajany Otum








		
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