How about this: don't imagine the racist, examine the real racist. He owns a restaurant. He doesn't allow blacks to patronize the restaurant. He employs blacks to clean the floors and take out the garbage at starvation wages.
He belongs to lots of good old boy clubs. He helps elect people to keep "them" in "their" place. The money he uses to help these good old boy people he gets from his restaurant's retained earnings, which of course, are more retained, the less he can pay the black workers, ergo keepin them in their place has certain important private and social significance. Consequently, if blacks are treated equally as whites, allowed to eat in the place as whites, well, hell's bells, David, they are going to demand being paid like whites. And then what is the real racist going to do? I'll tell you what he, they, did; they bought axe handles and shotguns and dynamite and they beat up people, shot people, burned down homes and churches, and blew up black children in their church. And I say, with all respect due, which is less than zero, that you are so far removed from reality that your faux erudition is real, and destructive, ignorance-- pathological ignorance. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David B. Shemano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 6:13 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] U. of Michigan pressured to halt publication of Joel Kovel book > Bill Lear asks: > > >> So, as long as you are repressed by private interests, it's ok? > > Ok as legal? I agree. Ok as morally correct? All depends on the context. Imagine a racist. Assume he would like to verbally insult every minority person he sees in the street. However, he knows that if starts shouting epithets, he will be socially shunned and get his ass kicked. So he shuts up. He (and I) think he is repressed. I see nothing wrong with his repression. > > David Shemano >
