File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1998/postcolonial.9804, message 88


Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 14:52:06 -0500 (CDT)
From: JOSHI <sjoshi-AT-eagle.cc.ukans.edu>
Subject: Re: Is the US PostColonial? Who is us and who is them?



Thanks for the info. Maybe this is far out, but I see a parallel with
blacks. In "Hoop Dreams' the only way out of being marginalized, for black
youths, was to excel in sports.(Specularizing themselves with any sexual
goals of the viewer disavowed / success depending on physical ability only
etc.). How different is this from slavery where only the best ditch
diggers / cotton pickers were allowed to breed / survive?


On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Richard Knox wrote:

> I'd like to suggest that not only is the US still fully colonial but
> that we have slavery perfected to the point where we can pretend it
> isn't here. 
> First - maybe the US is not a settler culture - maybe the settler
> culture has so much of the power that it can forget that another culture
> still exists here - on reservations and committing suicide daily through
> drug and alcohol abuse. 
> And regarding slavery - I've done business in Mexico and Indonesia.
> People work in Indonesia for $1 per day. And you know what they're
> doing? Making shirts for us to buy at the discount store. Through this
> euphemism of "free trade" which mean keep slaves outside your borders
> under the control of slavemasters in their countries- don't let them
> come here but let our money go there to set up factories. Send out
> soldiers and weapons to help their dictators keep them under control,
> and justify this support for their dictators because either :(1) if they
> were free they would form a communist government; or (2) there are drug
> lords in those countries who would do bad things if not stopped. How
> else do you justify military support and training to Mexico and
> Indonesia?
> Of course - the role of education is to indoctrinate students into
> accepting the ways of those who are in control and so if you're too
> educated these things may be hard to see?
> 
> 
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