September 21, 2007

The Problem Of Discussing Race And Racism

Can be summed up in one line in a commentary in today's Houston Chronicle.

White people's refusal to acknowledge their own racism is a major stumbling block to addressing issues of race in this country.

But the reality is that this is NOT the major stumbling block, or even a major stumbling block, in the discussion. Instead, it is the demand that the writer makes that biased, bigoted, racist assumption that underlies that statement that is the major obstacles to addressing issues of race in this country. What is sought, therefore, is not discussion or engagement on controversial issues, but surrender and capitulation in an echo chamber of political correctness.

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