" If you're the janitor..."

The biggest mistake the political LEFT has made in our generation

    is to obsess on RACE and SEX and  homophobia and abortion rights and

    now non-existent U.S. imperialism , ignoring old fashioned bread and

    butter BLUE COLLAR issues . They left all that social class stuff to

    the likes of George Wallace and Patrick Buchanan .

            Even old left wing publications like " The Militant " ( formerly

    Trotskyist ) and " The People's Weekly World " ( still Gus Hall Stalinist ? )

    seem more inclined to play the race card. Angry black and hispanic faces

    are routinely seen on their pages.

           These words - which infuriated - minority groups at URI have

    another interpretation . They appeared in a cartoon in the campus

    newspaper " The Good 5-Cent Cigar :

       " If you're the janitor, please wait until after class to empty the

    trash. If you're one of our minority students , welcome . "

        What I read in these cartoon words is a condescending attitude

    toward RACE ( but benevolent ) but a sneering ,contemptuous attitude

    toward CLASS .

            " If you're the janitor ... "  If the janitor was WHITE, we

    can be sure that the pseudo- liberal, politically correct professor

    would talk to him in a tone of haughty superiority .

      Does not a lowly janitor have a soul ? Does not he have feelings

    to be hurt, an ego to be bruised ? Does he not languish for something

    better in life than taking the good professor's trash away ?

          How about affirmative action for blue collar workers ? Or

    is there a new caste system in America ?