Reply #103: Interesting comments -- thank you --

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Right wing always wants to point to a "post-racist" or "post-feminist" period --

You can pretty much reverse anything they are telling you --

Also agree that the right wing "coded" their messages after Civil Rights era --

and that they seem to be in a frenzy right now in letting their racism rise to the open air!!

O'Keefe scam vs ACORN, IMO, was also a racist scheme -- against an organization

which worked to politically empower the poor and minorities -- and with personnel and leadership

comprised of minorities -- lawyers, etal. IMO, in what O'Keefe did we get an excellent view

into the minds and spirits of those who conspired in ACORN -- and it's a very ugly picture.

I don't know if you remember this -- but quite a few years back -- maybe 15? or more --

Republican National Committee Headquarters had a scandal when some videos they produced right

out of their offices hit the TV and played for a week or more. They had actually created

sexist, racist, anti-seminitic, homophobic videos -- USING THEIR OWN EMPLOYEES AS THE SUBJECTS --!!

So even though much of what they did has been coded -- much of it does surface from time to time.

PLUS, didn't the Senate Repugs also refuse to apologize for slavery even just a few years ago?

The Founders compromise with slavery led to the Civil War from which we still haven't recovered.

And though Segregation ended -- not that long ago, really -- we have a frightening new

prison industrial complex seemingly built upon imprisonment of minorities!

And -- unemployment in AA communities is also horrendous.


Basically, I'd like to see people talk more about the "exploitation" of racism -

it makes it a great deal clearer what is really going on --

This exploitation is always about the profit of the few -- based on myths of inferiority

of others -- Women, Native Americans, African Americans, Latinos -- not only here in the US

but all over the world.


I'd also guess that as with women, the backlash by the elites against the Civil Rights Era

has probably keep many advancements from happening -- and we need to continue to fight for

justice, as always.





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