>>> Ralph Dumain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/17/2008 7:18 PM >>> I don't find this a terribly illuminating discussion. As important as it is to analyze segregation's past, these comments don't shed much light on the current situation.
^^^^^ CB: I don't follow what you mean. Currently there is residential segregation by race. It is a fundamental aspect of the divide between races. It is rooted in fear of interracial intercourse. ^^^^ The question was asked why people accept an integrated public sphere, including the workplace, but still live in segregated neighborhoods and segregated private lives generally. This is a crucial question, but it can best be addressed by examining the contemporary situation in various locales. This social segregation is central to the problems this country faces, and it seems to me that even the most well-intentioned white Americans do not grasp the depth of the problem, and not the professionally guilt-ridden left either. One has to get outside the prevalent pattern in one way or another to fully see it for what it is. I haven't the slightest idea how this affects the presidential primaries, or why Iowa of all places went for Obama, or what's happening in the primary process, which seems to be me nothing more than the electoral equivalent of American Idol. It seems to me that white people--the media talking heads, especially--are really impressed by Obama in a way that blacks are not, which makes me wonder what's really going on here. ^^^^^ CB: In Detroit, 80% Black, in the primary just held, the Uncommitted voters were something like 75% for Obama , according to exit polls. ( I don't know if you heard about the strange situation where Clinton was the only one on the ballot, and voters for Edwards or Obams had to vote "uncommitted"). I hear lots of Black support for Obama At 01:59 PM 1/17/2008, Charles Brown wrote: >CB: My brother and I discuss the Bradley effect in the recent votes and >historical votes, residential re-segregation, anti-miscengenation in the >following posts to lbo-talk > >http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20080114/000999.html > >http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20080114/001008.html > >http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20080114/001014.html > >http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20080114/001038.html > >http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20080114/001069.html > >http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20080114/001070.html _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [email protected] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [email protected] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
