b1 February 3, 2005 - February 13, 2005

Submitted by Laura on Mon, 02/28/2005 - 13:01.

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What is it to struggle? How can anyone in a position, such as affluent American, claim suffering? Does any one know what it is to truly treat people fairly, regardless of their class or more importantly race? While most citizens of this country treat any race problem that might exist as something left to militia members eager to inflict their opinions on anyone that might resist, the idea of a struggle between races in this country is as important as it has ever been. "The idea that citizenship is a form of racial privilege in which whites are equal to each other but superior to everyone else" this produces a passive form of democracy that discourages participation in politics because it treats citizenship as an identity to possess rather than as a source of empowerment.^? This quote by Joel Olson from his new book The Abolition of White Democracy, raises new and valid questions regarding ingrained racial relations both in the psyche and the infrastructure of our country. With continual attention being paid the successful entrepreneur in our culture, civil rights issues have taken a back burner to any equality problems that may exist within our society. "The backbone of color blindness is the principle of public nonrecognition of racial identity." The problem is people are not paying full attention, if people recognize that many factors play into the racial injustices that lie underneath the surface of society many more would realize the toll it has taken on non-whites in this country. By making participation in the governmental processes a "gentlemen's club," reserved for a certain subset of society, we have effectively eliminated any chance of truly representing ourselves in an equal and fair way. Changing the way we relate to one another and therefore becoming more unified in an ever changing and ever-ominous world is something we as a society should stive towards, injustice is cyclical; we all suffer if there are many that remain unequal.

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Sincerely, Casey & The Dirt! "It is right it should be so; Man was made for Joy and Woe; And when this we rightly know, Thru the World we safely go. Joy and Woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul divine." William Blake
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