[PEN-L:7689] Re: Re: Re: racism on pen-l

[Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol@xxxxxxx>]

At 09:43 PM 6/3/99 -0400, Henry Liu wrote:
>Between friends, the problem with us intellectuals is that when we see a
>sausage, we think of Picasso, instead of starving people.  We keep deluding
>ourselves, with help from the oppressive culture, that if we associate with
>the more educated, we can protect ourselves from discrimination, whereas in
>reality, we only move into circles in which discrimination is more subtle and
>its expression more sophisticated.  Unwittingly, we permit ourselves to be
>co-opted into the oppressors camp and comfort ourselves by claiming that at
>least we are still on the left.


Agreed. But what is to be done to change that?

wojtek