{"id":2332,"date":"2008-03-27T07:02:17","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T12:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2332"},"modified":"2008-07-14T14:07:46","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T19:07:46","slug":"dialog-on-race-part-ii-my-term-your-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2332","title":{"rendered":"“Dialog On Race”, Part II – My Term, Your Term"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the biggest problem in trying to “talk” about “race” with people – mainly but not exclusively with the white liberals who try to control so much of the “debate” – is that while it is human nature to be a racist, a sexist, a classist…a me<\/em>-ist, in short, is the same problem one always <\/em>encounters when dealing with people whose fundamental approach to life is idealistic, rather than pragmatic (and what is a liberal but an arrested idealist?); the definition of “racism” becomes less a matter of “lynchings” and “detritus of slavery” and “lack of opportunity”, and more a matter of “failure to adhere to some inhumanly-obtuse standard of purity in thought”.<\/p>\n

William Raspberry – in a column that appeared nearly two decades ago, long before the online era – allowed that the former <\/em>version of racism was dead, and was manifested (as of about 1991) primarily in the sort of ignorance that is, to a modestly secure person, more or less irrelevant.\u00a0 Now, as I noted the other day<\/a>, the aftereffects <\/em>of institutional racism are still with us – mainly, in my humble opinion, in the devaluation of the male, especially the father, in black society.\u00a0 And there’s a “racism of low expectations” that operates in our welfare system and in our schools, to be sure.\u00a0 Those are sins of arrogance, political hubris and institutional stupidity (I’ll be charitiable), though, not of racial malevolence; as partisan as I am, I’m not going to say “the Department of Education and the Klan are different sides of the same coin”.<\/p>\n

So dialog me this;\u00a0 does anyone actually think there’s not <\/em>less racism – defined as “active ractial hatred” – today than there was 50 years ago?\u00a0 If not, how so?
\nBonus question:\u00a0 If your answer is “yes”, can you show me a society in all of history that has done as much <\/em>to repeal human nature, as fast as our society has?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the biggest problem in trying to “talk” about “race” with people – mainly but not exclusively with the white liberals who try to control so much of the “debate” – is that while it is human nature to be a racist, a sexist, a classist…a me-ist, in short, is the same problem one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebony-and-ivory","category-history-and-its-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}