FURTHER THOUGHTS ON THE RACISM THING: After watching that atrocious movie in Lingusitics today, I reconsidered a little: what white people, or at least rich white people, or at least rich white southern people (by which I mean men), did was unspeakably horrible. But facts is facts-- they can't go back, and most of us don't want them to. The question becomes whether or not we can live together. Can you forget what people who looked like me (but were not actually related to me; my people were being oppressed in Eastern Europe at the time) did to your ancestors at some time neither of us was around? And it's not-- it shouldn't be-- a matter of my having to subscribe to your ideology. It's about what Malcolm X said, not carrying other people's propaganda.
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