I think we need a "White Paper" from Randy and Ted to set this matter straight. Or perhaps just an up-to-date version of the "Totem and Taboo" booklet which was issued when Jerry Wiener was multiculturalism minister under PM Mulroney. That booklet contained such sage advice as to not use the expression "yellow coward" though it did not say anything about "lily livered". The Whites of this world should be outraged so that outrage could go in the White Paper.
Long ago (when Jerry was just a little Wiener) Canada did not need to even think about such matters. But now we have become a pluralistic society, "in spades"....oops I did it again as Britney would say. We are even about to legalize homosexual marriage and rewrite the marriage laws so as to make sure the religionists have their version of marriage entrenched in law too. Which religionists? This is a pluralistic society is it not? Mormons, Muslims and Biblical traditionalists everywhere say plural marriages are "kosher". Leonard Cohen lyrics from his CD "The Future": "Things are gonna slide, Sliiide... Slide in all directions. Won't be nuthing, Nuthin you can measure anymore." As the "march of the machines" proceeds inexorably through this century we are all going to be stepping out of our skins, at least for a peak at reality. Robo sapiens will soon emerge as an artificial life form, a new species. Perhaps the culture of robo sapiens will keep us as pets like we keep cats and dogs. And robo sapiens will be the NEW RACISTS. They will decide which races of humans they want to keep and how they will use eugenics to artificially select for certain characteristics as we select for milk production or egg laying in lower species. Maybe they will treat all of us equally but I doubt it. Robots are very discriminating machines. FWP <http://www.geocities.com/machine_psychology> On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There is an underlying notion that racism can be "cured." Maybe the cure is > to accept that we are all racists in one way or another. This includes us > all. All over the world. Maybe its part of the human condition. > > Above all do no harm. > > arthur > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ray Evans Harrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 11:38 PM > To: Franklin Wayne Poley; Brad McCormick, Ed.D. > Cc: Harry Pollard; Keith Hudson; Selma Singer; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Futurework] ) Hue and Cry on 'Whiteness Studies' > > > Actually, it is the study of left over scientific racism in the 19th century > that divided people down by race rather than by culture. It is ignorant > and has proven ignoble and it is still practiced and used as an excuse for > many policies. We would do better to understand the genius in each group > and study our art classes so that we would all learn that French culture is > different from Italian, German, English, Russian etc. and that when folks > come over here they don't blend but become unconscious streams in the river > of America. The unconsciousness of it and the ignorance and lack of > appreciation for differences then get explained in the over simplicities of > scientific stories about genus, species etc. and get applied in places where > they should have never gone and the world gets paranoid. The study of > that phenomenon in human behavious is a legitimate one. We didn't need > classes to understand it other than historical philosophy courses and good > music and art history classes. It is not a difficult error to see once you > experience many cultural expressions and their genius. > > There is, however, the abused groups. The groups that have been so > oppressed and removed from the ancient movements, that they still carry > somatically, that they are almost split in their expressions. The > conflicts of Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court are a good example. But > the reality is that without returning to the deep cultural springs that you > constantly wear, you will always be condemned to feeling uncomfortable in > your skin. Helping people heal is a good thing to do and helping both > former oppressors and the oppressed do that is also a good thing to do in my > opinion. > America should pay for its racist history and Europe should pay for > Imperialism. Those are debts owed in the world and no amount of science > and prosperity ill gotten deserves impunity. > > Arthur I believe instead of sublimation you were talking about psychological > transfirence. > > REH > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Franklin Wayne Poley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Ray Evans Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Harry Pollard" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Keith Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > "Selma Singer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 11:21 PM > Subject: Re: [Futurework] ) Hue and Cry on 'Whiteness Studies' > > > > Whiteness Studies. > > > > Are you talking about the White Culture which Randy White, MP and Ted > > White, MP could conjure up? > > > > How about a description of WHITE CITY plus surroundings? > > > > > > FWP > > > > <http://www.geocities.com/machine_psychology> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Futurework mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
