[Peace-discuss] Race & class, re: News notes 2005-09-18

[Karen Medina]

>Ricky Baldwin wrote:
>So the President first acts like he never knew poverty
>existed, or racism, in all his time in the South, in
>America, on Earth.  

I honestly believe that Bush is incapable of noticing much 
beyond his own personal experiences. He has not experienced 
poverty, discrimination, injustice, torture, being in a 
minority, being cornered and powerless and desperate, hungry, 
thirsty, and he has never watched someone he loves die in 
war. He is incapable of understanding any of it until he has 
experienced it. Otherwise, how could he possibly do any of 
the things he has done? May his eyes somehow be opened.

-karen medina 

---- Original message ----
>From: Ricky Baldwin <baldwinricky at yahoo.com>  
>
>he would admit that some people are "cut off" from the
>"opportunity of America" through no fault of their
>own, and not just the hurricane.
>
[...] for those who managed not to notice much racism in our 
economic system before (like Bush?).
>
>And it's easier to justify such an inhumane system,
>like the war, if its victims can be seen as very
>different from ourselves in some way, not worthy of
>solidarity or aid or even much compassion.[...]
>
>Would it be okay to summarily execute an innocent
>person every year, so long as the person were chosen
>fairly?  
>
>So the President first acts like he never knew poverty
>existed, or racism, in all his time in the South, in
>America, on Earth.  
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Karen E. Medina
University of Illinois, Urbana Campus