R C Macaulay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > True Jed, > best if it the wording were limited to ...corruption and academic > suppression. I am disturbed by the introduction off the racial component.
Ditto Horace's response. Frankly, I do not understand your sentiments. Why should anyone hesitate to say this is blatant racism? One of the lessons of the 1960s is that when these things happen it is best to shout it from the rooftops. That's the only way to make the racists crawl back under their rocks. Prior to the '60s, some victims of racism or sexism felt ashamed and did not speak out. Perhaps they were "internalizing" the attack, and blamed themselves. Some people have gone too far the other direction, and become professional victims. They look for slight to exaggerate and blow out of proportion. Such people, I think, have not experienced the real thing. Taleyarkhan definitely has experienced it, as have many other Indian people in the U.S. Anyone who doubts that racism is still widespread in the U.S. should read about events in Obama's campaign, and read the comments Obama evokes in discussion forums even in places like the Washington Post, where extreme messages are censored. Even I find it a disconcerting, and I have lived in the South most of my life, and heard countless racist comments. Some people here still do not even realize they are being racist when they say outrageous things. A white woman in Atlanta, I think it was, recent said: "I am not racist but I do not ever want to see a black man as president." - Jed
