just one thing
the article is largely about racism,
yet the other day when Nelson Mandela brought up Race
both you and CB dismissed him as a wacko, out of touch, losing it etc.
The implication was that wrt Race, it was over...been there, done that.
Perhaps I misunderstood.
I think you did misunderstand, spiral3. What I meant (and CB too I think) was not that racism is a dead issue, but that it is a totally inappropriate way to look at the Arab/Israeli divide, which is religous/ideological at bottom, not racial at all, except for lively Arab efforts to resurrect Nazi anti-Semitism. It's particularly absurd to call the Israelis (who come all colors white to black, with most of absolutely Middle Eastern descent) "white", and the Iraqis (pretty pale usually) "black", unless you are really using "white" as a code word for "European style democracy" and "black" for "Third World dictatorship". And if you are, then you're no longer talking about race anyway. |
