Reply #176: thanks for your response, QC

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i see you share my "both...and" perspective. however, i don't think some of the posters i was referring to do...their posts smacked of an "either...or" pov to me. i am somewhat queasy about the idea of a monument, personally, but i was commenting on the opposition to it, and the insistence of one in particular that honoring african slaves would be "racist." i don't agree with that perspective, and i am aware of that classism, like sexism, is intricately connected to racism.
all isms, and how they work in tandem, is completely whitewashed in the history that most of us are taught, so it is important to discuss all of it. however, i am struck by the dynamic i described...the mention of anything remotely "black" tends to illicit predictable responses, much like the unconditioned response of the dogs in pavlov's research.