Rakesh says: > >Or is it that the more whites (an interesting category) feel that they may >lose political power due to their impending minority status, the more they >will insist on the right to maintain prejudices "for their own"? Is this >why California has been the site for both Props 187 (the attack on >trabajadores sin papeles) and 209, that whites imagine themselves here as a >group headed for minority status? And do whites imagine themselves in this >paranoid way in no small part because census data, kept in racial >categories, continuously reminds them of how they will soon be "pinced" , >as best-selling immigration expert Peter Brimelow puts it, in between >Blacks, Hispanics and Asians? > > I understand your sentiment but you should be careful not to rescind into racism yourself. your emphasis on "whites" as an oppressive colour disturbs me. oppression is system-specific. i don't see too many whites in rwanda oppressing. rather you should focuc on the ruling class not by colour but by its association with capital. kind regards bill -- #### ## William F. Mitchell ####### #### Head of Economics Department ################# University of Newcastle #################### New South Wales, Australia ###################* E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ################### Phone: +61 49 215065 ##### ## ### +61 49 215027 Fax: +61 49 216919 ## http://econ-www.newcastle.edu.au/~bill/billyhp.html "only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money." (Cree Indian saying...circa 1909)