August 12, 2004

Preach on my friend, preach on
by Liza Sabater

Racist Like Me - Why am I the only honest bigot? By Debra Dickerson To Prometheus 6: You're not going to like this one, but sugar, you know how I stand on this race thing. It is and it ain't. To y'all, especially my white friends : Read the whole damn thing. It's awesome.

In a way, I'm arguing for class warfare to replace racial warfare. Class conflict makes sense; it keeps the powerful from riding roughshod over senior citizens who can't retire from manual labor in the hot sun. The truth is, I have far more in common with the rich white man than I do with that poor black grandfather (who would never dare to park on private property in this neighborhood). A world of perfect harmony would be lovely, but until the rapture comes I'd rather blue-collar types of all races faced off against us "suits" than one race against the other. There is nothing logical, natural, or beneficial about a world organized by race—the very concept is irrational. Any system divided along racial lines, implicitly or overtly, will be immoral, inefficient, and unstable. (Take, for example, poor whites' hatred of slaves, rather than of slavery, for depressing wages.)

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