[Peace-discuss] Anti-racism

[Marti Wilkinson]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 7:58 AM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>wrote:

> Wouldn't it betray a "privileged mindset" so easily to set aside, say, the
> victories against racism of the US civil rights movement, by saying that
> that racism wasn't different from racial prejudice?
>

Nope, in fact citing the victories of the Civil Rights movement overlooks
the fact that marginalized groups still face many uphill battles in the
United States. It's a convenient form of denial that perpetuates the myth
that racism is a thing of the past.

>
>
> Marti Wilkinson wrote:
>
>> For many people racism is not something that can be separated from racial
>> prejudice, and it can be argued that even attempting to make such a
>> distinction is consistent with a privileged mindset.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:23 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu<mailto:
>> galliher at illinois.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>    [Racism refers to legal structures that penalize groups defined by
>>    descent. Racial prejudice refers to censorious attitudes towards
>>    groups defined by descent.  Both are present in Israel. Racism, but
>>    not racial prejudice, is now largely absent in the US (altho' some,
>>    like native Americans, may justly not think so).  --CGE]
>>
>>           March 4, 2009
>>           SEGREGATION IN ISRAEL
>>
>>    Israeli Association for Civil Rights
>>
>>    Some 55 percent of Jewish Israelis say that the state should
>>    encourage Arab emigration;
>>
>>    78 percent of Jewish Israelis oppose including Arab parties in the
>>    government;
>>
>>    56 percent agree with the statement that 'Arabs cannot attain the
>>    Jewish level of cultural development'
>>
>>    75 percent agree that Arabs are inclined to be violent. Among
>>    Arab-Israelis, 54 percent feel the same way about Jews.
>>
>>    75 percent of Israeli Jews say they would not live in the same
>>    building as Arabs.
>>
>>    http://prorev.com/2009/03/segregation-in-israel.html
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