Re: Staggering Death rate for black pregnant women

[Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol@xxxxxxx>]

At 06:09 PM 8/30/99 -0400, Yoshie wrote:
>You know, Andy -- Wojtek doesn't care, one way or another, about a proper
>way of locating racism in scientific social analysis.  His interest lies in
>rehabilitating economism plain and simple, for which purpose he may, as you
>note, argue from whatever view of reality if it suits him (i.e. to define
>racism out of existence or significance).  I feel it perfectly fine that
>Wojtek (as an individual) subscribes to the Debs-like economism.
>
>Mark Pittenger wrote in _American Socialists and Evolutionary Thought,
>1870-1920_ (Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1993):
>
>*****  Debs dismissed the Negro question as one more facet of working-class
>exploitation: "The class struggle is colorless...We have nothing special to
>offer the Negro, and we cannot make separate appeals to all the races."
>(179)   *****
>
>Wojtek just needs to go ahead and say so.
>
>In any case, what he says hardly matters, to us or to anyone (black, white,
>yellow, red, rainbow).  He's just a liberal professor who seldom gets off
>his ass (exactly that favorite put-down of his), and it's a good thing too
>that he is (for otherwise he might do some damage to the Left).


So finally you managed to pigeon-hole me by hooking me up with a written
text and thereby expose what i "really" think.  Gee, Yoshie, i am amazed -
why are you wasting your talents on this list instead of, say, writing a
sequel to Rush Limbaugh's _I told you so_?

wojtek