Re: Is white racism nec. all bad?

Donald Edwards (warrl@blarg.com)
8 Apr 1995 09:18:08 -0700

John Otteson (otteson@b4pphf6.bnr.ca) wrote:

"Racism is not just economic and it is not an instance in the past. Racism
"is very much alive today

Much less so than some people believe (still too much so, though)

", and "totally innocent" people are suffering it.

So identify and punish the guilty.

"Your use of "two bankers" implies a pre-crime equality

That assumes a lot, and is irrelevant.

"and also an amount of economic power.

Everyone has an amount of economic power.

"The point *I* was trying to make, when you inserted yourself into the
"conversation, was that there are great(!!) benefits to being white in this
"this culture. What is *your* point?

That it is wrong to punish the innocent

" Do you think it would be fair to
"ignore any advantages to whiteness and to pretend that they are not
"there?

To the extent that these advantages are encoded in law, they should
be removed by changing the law. To the extent that *dis*advantages
to whiteness are encoded in law, they should be removed by changing
the law.

Attempting to do otherwise will lead to steadily increasing
interracial strife, and eventually to outright interracial
warfare.