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To: Lane3 who wrote (61883)	4/26/2008 3:06:26 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541674

>>Mixing what used to go on with what's still going on may be helpful for some purposes but it doesn't contribute much to problem solving.<< Karen - I see your point. Unfortunately, the problem of racism doesn't necessarily lend itself well to solutions based on specific types of discrimination. You can outlaw redlining, as has been done. You can outlaw other specific actions. But you can't legislate feelings. The problem is that the feelings of mistrust and resentment, which go both ways across these divides, engender behaviors that perpetuate the mistrust and resentment. - Allen

To: Lane3 who wrote (61883)	4/26/2008 3:24:00 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541674

Mixing what used to go on with what's still going on may be helpful for some purposes but it doesn't contribute much to problem solving. Racism is extra complicated because it can exist independently of actual "hate." As people say of rape that it isn't about sex, racism isn't about hate. It is more about feelings of power and helplessness, resentment and anger. What I meant was an analysis for just which and how much racism is still practiced today, not how much old pains haunt people. Is there redlining, for example? How often does it happen? What you seem to want is a sociological analysis. That isn't what people like Wright would bring to the table. And it isn't clear to me that sociological analysis is what will heal racial divisions. At least not solely so. It has to be a multilevel attack that includes sociological analysis along with rants and chants and exhortations and laws and steady determination and effort and public, peaceful demonstrations. And talk that will undoubtedly seem endless to those who haven't been personally affected by it. And projects like the HCZ that attempts to heal whole communities. Unhappily, can't spend much time on the web today, too much to do.