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June 12, 2016 11:42 PM   Subscribe

E pluribus unum - "Functional nation states generally try to reduce the salience of socioethnic difference in favor of a national identity." (via)
posted by kliuless (1 comment total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Short op-ed about US election candidates and terrorism, etc that suggests racial activism makes things more comfortable for Trump and hurts the class struggle ... put this in the election thread if it needs to go somewhere, I guess. -- taz



 
You might win an election that way, but you might also take us from a country of people who, still, mostly, don’t think of themselves as partisans for their race to one in which organizing along racial lines becomes a matter of self-defense. Of course, it often has felt that way, and really has been that way, for African Americans.

But isn’t the “people who, still, mostly, don’t think of themselves as partisans for their race” here just code for “white people”?
posted by Going To Maine at 11:58 PM on June 12, 2016


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