El 11 Jul 97 a las 21:23, Alan Spector <spector@calumet.purdue.edu>
dixit:
> The WHOLE POINT of my several postings to WSN on this matter is
> exactly the opposite of what Stephen Homick apparently inferred; it
> was to emphasize the ways that biology is misused in classifying
> people according to so-called "race". However, to coin a new
> phrase, "ideas can become a material force in the world when they
> are grasped by people", and therefore, the IDEA of "race" can have
> very profound impacts on the world.
I certainly don't have an axe to grind with Alan Spector over his
critique of the misuse of biology in "racial classification," and
indeed concur with it. However, I'm at loggerheads with what I
consider his ill-advised choice of the word "Latino," to underscore
the point he was at pains to make. It's, as I've made plain, a
deceptive, imprecise term, bereft of any classificatory significance,
but nonetheless used to foster ends both prejudicial and detrimental
to harmonious social interaction generally.
In fact Spector's use of it at all gives me pause to wonder on
which side of the fence he's actually perched. Will Alan Spector
call out on the carpet those who employ "Latino" to champion such
noxious goals, with the force and conviction that he criticizes the
"dominant ideology for doing the same with "white" or "Anglo?"
El 11 Jul 97 a las 9:52, james m blaut <70671.2032@CompuServe.COM>
dixit:
> Steve Homick: That's very interesting, about Palos having been a
> port from which sherry was exported. I thought it went mainly from
> Cadiz, Jerez de la Frontera, and Sevilla.
>
> The rest of your comment I take it is a giggle at my ridicluous
> theory about the rise of Europe. I'm fed up to the eyes with this
> sort of japery. Read my book and tell me precisely where I am
> mistaken or..shut up.
>
> And you comment about Spector suggests ominous questions about your
> own views: for instance, are you opposed to Affirmative Action since
> it recognizes race?
Think again, Jim: Palos was, and is, an outlet for a race of wine
known as "El Condado, which is akin to sherry and which is produced
in an area of the same name that lies just to the southeast of the
port and extends to the Marismas and Dona=F1a. El Condado, it's worth
noting, has achieved a certain notoriety for the raising of feral
bulls as well. Sanl=FAcar de Barrameda and Puerto de Santa Mar=EDa, not
C=E1diz, Jerez or Sevilla, are the historical outlets for the manifold
races of sherry.
Apropos of your thesis--I wouldn't go so far as to label it a
theory--it simply doesn't explain to my satisfaction the complex and
exceedingly long rise of Europe to "global dominion." In
your penultimate posting you stated, "It all started at Palos." And
that little quip put me to thinking if the port had some secret
quality--a magical "elixir," if you will-- that might have
jump-started the juggernaut of European imperial expansion. The
results of my meditation are known and require no further comment.
Jim, do show me where in Title 41, Ch. 60 of the Federal Code--the
enabling legislation for Affirmative Action programs--the word "race"
is mentioned, let alone recognized. What AA recognizes are certain
"affected" classes which in turn are identified as women and
"minority groups," including "Blacks," "Spanish-surnamed Americans,"
"American Indians" and "Orientals." I'll grant that my copy of the
law is over 20 years old; but I doubt seriously that "race" may have
been substituted for "minority groups" in any subsequent amendments.
Desde las Monta=F1as Verdes, saludos virtuales de
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