Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 18:01:09 -0700
From: bill hard <billhard-AT-netwizards.net>
Subject: Re: M-TH: RACE 




       The problem with trying to deal effectively with issues like
affirmative action is that it's like
 building a new foundation for a tenement=85on the roof. To graft solutions to
a system requiring
 a certain percentage of unemployed is comparable to solving the problems of
crime by building
 more prisons. Though, in it's deus ex machina way, capitalism will solve
this also. The Correctional  Institute of America has calculated that by the
turn of the century, 500,000 prison inmates will be  producing goods for
private industries worth 9 billion dollars. Naturally we can expect that a
large  percentage will be black.

     Then there is what Marx describes as "species alienation", that is, the
social estrangement that
results from an alienating work process, one that divides individuals from
one another.

      And incidently, another eloquent Marxist is the black psychiatrist
Frantz Fanon who described the alienation experienced by Algerians in their
dealings with the French. [The Wretched of the Earth].


Another days gone by

                                                             Bill



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