When Eugene Robinson said "There's also a pretty solid consensus on what's racist and what isn't" yesterday, I disagreed. I thought there's a consensus on what is racist but not on how to establish it or what to do about it. We on P6 have had two rather interesting threads on the cross blog Billary discussion that made me realize I was wrong. There's an idea need clarification.
Slavery is not racism. Racism is not slavery. And some of your minds just went into overdrive looking for objectionable moral implications, but I'm warning you: I'm not talking about anything more than the physical fact that they are different phenomena linked by the fact that, in this country, one was the justification of the other. So when you say "racism," all the slave imagery leaps forward.
But if you could map the American psyche you'd find slavery was a building constructed in the swamp named 'racism.' And you'd see Black people saying, "Stay the hell out of the swamp!" while (strictly as an example, mind you) Hillary's campaign is saying, "We're not making that kind of building in this here swamp, nosiree!"
No wonder they're up to their asses in alligators.
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