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In article <32690F5C.1A01@bork.bork.bork>, Nosnag Selrahc
<no.spam@bork.bork.bork> wrote:

> Isaac Cubillos wrote:
> > 
> > In <546alv$jpc@park.interport.net> amk@interport.net (Andy Katz)
> > writes:
> > >
> > >Only when you separate completely race from class is the above valid.
> > >Otherwise adopting a stringent class-based critique is every bit as
> > >narrow as the race-based one.
> > 
> > There is an overlay of racism in the class war, there's no doubt about
> > that. I'm stripping to its barest essence, which I believe Tony and
> > Andy both agree (if I read their different post correctly) that the
> > root, underlying cause is class.
> > 
> > A case in point is the overclass getting "Irish" described as a
> > separate race other than "white" in the census collecting of the 1800s.
> > Then only after former black slaves began moving north and taking jobs
> > along the harbors of the Eastern cities, did the overclass see a way to
> > manipulate the situation, but moving "Irish" into the white
> > category.... nothing changed, the overclass kept theirs and now the
> > white Irish had someone to squabble with of the leftovers ... based on
> > race manipulated by the overclass.
> 
> Yes, and I have seen LAPD writing "M" for "Race:" on traffic tickets.
> So history repeats.

Whattyamean? What's "M"?

Gooshie

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