Hi
My colleague Yvie Holders predictably very useful contribution to this
debate prompts me to suggest that in dealing with such points one can
also make the case for racism being colour blind as with the white world
and Jews or the (white )English with the (white) Irish & hence make the
institutional & power relationship issues raised by Yvie & others even
stronger. I also think that an explanation that does not raise
historical issues of imperialism as well as class context may produce
too easy an analysis. We have to accept that what happened in Rwanda was
born of empire.
Lest it be thought that as a white male I am missing the point here I
should add that I do accept that the primary dynamic for most forms of
direct discrimination in England is because a person is black if it is
about race or because a person is a women if it is about sex.
Ged
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