RE: institutional racism

Sat, 20 Jul 1996 14:00:03 -0700
Christian Harlow (harlowc@cats.ucsc.edu)

dlj contradicts himself (again)

> It seems to me more plausible to think that there are racist, non-racist and
> anti-racist institutions,

Well if there are racist institututions then I guess there is
institutional racism, no? Is the real estate industry an institution?
Is the state an institution? The "institutionalized" practices of these
two "institutions" throughout U.S. history are proof enough that there
is institutionalized racism. I know that noone on WSN is lame enough to
beleive anything that dlj writes anymore but in case anyone wants some
(more) ammo to beat down the "there is no such thing as institutional
racism" bullshit check out _American Apartheid_ by Massey and Denton,
1993. It shows how race is the primary determinate in issues of
continued segregation and concentration of poverty in the black
community.

So dlj you might as well take your computer and go play in the street, I
don't suffer fools well and am not going to respond to anything more you
have to say about this issue...you are wrong...the science has been
done...you would do better to read some of it rather than to continue
filling our bandwidth with nonsense.

A luta continua,

Christian