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To: JohnM who wrote (33974)	7/9/2002 4:55:22 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

>>Brilliant -- a sociologist who now claims not to understand the difference between race and culture. It is precisely when the two are collapsed into one another and the latter is read as if it was produced by the former, that one has racism You have a point about the definition of racism. Here is an example in action: But just as it has now become inappropriate for white scholars to speak on behalf of "Negroes," it has, since the end of classical European colonialism, stopped being fashionable or even acceptable to pontificate about the Oriental's (i.e., the Muslim's, or the Indian's, or the Japanese's) "mentality." On what basis is it "inappropriate" for "white scholars" to speak "on behalf of 'Negroes'"? Why should the race of these "white scholars" matter? Is this not an example of reading the culture of these "white scholars" as if it were produced by their race, which as you say, is racism? Notice how "white scholars" (what is Said's excuse for this racist term?) are quite explicitly forbidden from speaking ("pontificating") about Muslim "mentality", but no such prohibition holds in reverse -- Said is free to say what he likes about "Western" mentality.