Monday, March 23, 1998

Alternative to affirmative action?

I concluded from a Left point of view years ago that affirmative

    action programs only fan the flames of racism, and do very little to

    correct it. Nevertheless it is disturbing to my sense of justice that

    all of a sudden NO black faces are appearing on the campuses of the

    " better " colleges ".

        The problem as I see it this : Working class whites were paying the

    bill for these affirmative action programs . Our capitalist society

    demands a ground down, low wage " nigger " class. Affirmative action

    programs simply declassed many working class whites. As a result racial

    relations deteriorated.

       Many grievances of blacks - which seem like mere paranoia from the

    perspective of RACE- make perfect sense from the perspective of CLASS.

       Jesse Jackson had the right idea all along - a " rainbow coalition "

    of the WORKING CLASS - is the key to effectively fighting essentially

    CLASS oppression.

        If the rich are getting fabulously richer - and show no sign that

    they give a thought to social justice- this means that there are no

    moral or ethical ties that bind the social classes together in a unified

    society with some COMMON PURPOSE.

       This bleak truth should be reflected in the political activity of the

    working class.

        We should let the well-heeled folks know that there social order

    is no more unsinkable than the Titanic. ( their order )

         CLASS POLITICS should be the wave of the future in the U.S.A.

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