[Peace-discuss] Racism follow-up
David Green
davegreen84 at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 21 11:18:38 CDT 2010
Just to clarify, institutionalized racism is a serious problem in this country,
and of course closely tied to capitalism and class warfare, always has been. The
NAACP was founded (1909) primarily with the goal of challenging the legal
manifestations of institutionalized racism--legalized (southern) segregation,
etc. Obviously, this approach was integral to the success of the southern Civil
Rights Movement, while less so in the north, where discrimination had always
been institutionalized in a different, more structurally complicated manner.
Thus, the past 40 years has the evolution of racism by other means, as the
recently-published "New Jim Crow" attests to--centrally, the school-to-prison
pipeline and the prison-industrial complex, etc.
A series of informative essays addresses these issues in Elijah Anderson and
Douglas Massey (eds.) "Problem of the Century" (2001).
The NAACP has seen its day, as Prof. Sundiata Cha-Jua was honest enough to say
in the presence of a local NAACP official, a two weeks ago in the Friday night
meeting addressing local issues, Kiwane Carrington, etc. And the fact that they
resort to ADL-style publicity in relation to Tea Party/Obama is entirely
consistent with that. Disdain for the NAACP is politically incorrect and long
overdue; ironically, a black President and his defenders has forced it out of my
(now almost empty) closet.
DG
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