This is a discussion list, not a voting mechanism. In "speaking to  
the choir" the rest of the choir doesn't voice assent as netiquette  
would be violated by endless "I agree" emails.

Inspection of the "sense of the list" shows that we post statements  
wherein we disagree with, or clarify or amplify previous posts.

Jumping into the intent of the post, there are those who appear to be  
blissfully unaware that racism exists in other venues than in the  
white world. Racism is what, the evil twin of the ethnocentric coin?

In my short term on the planet, the trajectory has gone from a sort  
of acceptance of the status quo on race issues to full "acceptance"  
of one and all. But at the same time, self-awareness of the racism  
implicit in the old status quo has made a sort of "black and white"  
view of things flip to the other side of the coin to a species of  
self-flagellation at the injustices perpetuated by the dominant  
culture on the minorities wherein what "we" perpetrated upon them  
somehow stains us forever to the point where we cannot then point out  
anything and I mean anydamnthing at all that implies criticism of a  
minority viewpoint.

In my view, if it's racist, it's racist and it mattereth not who  
uttereth it. Flipping over to the total support of the supposed other  
side does nothing but perpetuate problems if said problems are not  
themselves brought out into the open for inspection.

Racism isn't just white, it's black, red, yellow, ethnic, religious,  
etc. Just because a member of the minority formerly the subject of  
overt and covert racism has been accepted does not allow said  
minority a free pass to level un-answered or even implied charges of  
racism without the danger that should be so obvious. It is a  
perversion of "let him who is without sin cast the first stone" writ  
modern with the hyper-relativist non-judgmental group-think common  
today. As the noted philosopher G. F. Patton said: "When we all think  
alike, nobody's thinking."

Lyle Browning, RPA


On Jun 24, 2007, at 11:50 PM, macbd1 wrote:

> ...Listers,
>
> With all of the 'supposed' political correctness at this list, the  
> 'supposed' multi-culturalism, the oh-how-we-would-never-treat- 
> others-that-way, the comparison of white Americans to Nazi Germans,  
> the claims of "white racism extending over almost the entire US, if  
> not near the entirity of the white population," the "political  
> lynchings as well that targeted primarily left-wing  
> organizers," (huh...?), the feelings that respect for the law was  
> fundamental and that Reagan, _*unlike the people who call  
> themselves conservative today*_, understood the dangers that are  
> intrinsic to democracy, that 'a few' good whites (were fearful and)  
> were bullied into submission by the KKK...., ad infintum to  
> nauseum.   Now I'm simply wondering why 'nobody' at this list has  
> had 'the guts' to stand up and back James Brothers' statement 'in  
> its entirety': "To assume that all/most Whites felt the non- 
> judicial murder of Blacks was appropriate is racist."