Re: Social Engineering (was: Different patriarchy Model)
Gerold Firl (geroldf@sdd.hp.com)
9 Jan 1995 13:09:22 -0800
In article <3el9i9$210@triton.unm.edu> mycol1@unm.edu (Bryant) writes:
>End of conversation? Plenty of people can observe that black men commit
>more violent crime per capita than others. Some will conclude that it
>has to do with "blackness" or "black culture" rather than ecological
>considerations of poverty maintained by disenfranchisement. P.Tom sounds
>like a racist, and appears to have at least come to some erroneous
>conclusions.
No, actually that was me who sounds like a "racist".
And could you explain the part about the ecological considerations of
poverty maintained by disenfranchisemnt?
>Help him out. Point out cases where other groups subjected to similar
>circumstances have reacted similarly. Point out that West African men do
>not rank high in the world's homicide rates, while Americans of West
>African descent do. The best argument against racism isn't ideological
>condemnation, but a simple presentation of facts.
Sounds good to me.
Do you know of any analogous situations? Most societies of the past held
slaves, and manumission was a common event, though I cant't think of any
cases of mass-manumission, such as occured in the US. What about the
islands of the caribbean? cuba, the bahamas, jamaica; what about guyana -
how does the history of race relations in these nations compare with the
US?
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