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- scottknick, on 01/11/2009, -0/+1FTA: "My guess is that the way whites have governed thus far won't be the model for the next generation of ethnic majority stakeholders. The coming wave will be so diffused and blended into such a racial and cultural stew, that even using the simplistic anthropological definitions of the past will seem silly."
The implications of this sentence blow my white male mind. Where will we be when complexion becomes decoupled from "race," and no longer serves as a shorthand for "class"? I suspect that the notion of class will survive the idea of race, as indeed it largely has in Latin America. There has long been an unquestioned assumption among liberals such as myself that a post-racial America will be more just, but is that necessarily so? There could well be boots planted on necks, even if the owner of the neck and the owner of the boot are both sort of mocha-colored.



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