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To: Ilaine who wrote (19948)	2/25/2002 10:12:37 AM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 281500

I am not arguing that elites were less racist, only that they were less violent because they were not at the bottom of the ladder struggling for their livelihood against recent immigrants and people of color. Gotcha. There is, of course, an argument that the violence of the elites is institutionally supported and thus much less visible whereas the violence of the non-elites is outside institutions (precisely because they lack the power to mobilize institutions to do their work for them) and thus more visible. Just messin' with your head. As for factory owners, my own rather limited experiences/reading on the bigotry of the privileged leads me to believe that such bigotry was most rampant in Wall Street, banks (I have some experience here), the Ivies (some experience here), etc. and it was largely anti-semitic. John