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Originally Posted by KSig RC
Right - Dorchester and Queensbridge and West Philly and Camden still exist, even if our shit doesn't stink. There's no reason to assume superiority based on a wholly-imagined line on a map.
In fact, so-called "northern" racism might be more pernicious in some ways - I can imagine scenarios in which one might prefer overt, in-your-face racism over subtle institutional racism.
That is to say, no matter what I think of ol' Rebel Jack, it doesn't change the racial composition of the hotel staff (from cleaning to front desk) where I'm staying.
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Precisely although the overt and covert were always combined.
I am in the school of thought that the in-your-face only existed to reinforce and solidify the institutional. The best way to persistently exclude groups of people is to identify and target them, label them, and mistreat them so they will be socialized as the power minority. The economic backdrop of slavery (across societies) and servitude targeted groups of people who were easily identified as "the other." The system and structure were already being mobilized. Now they just needed to make the people believe it all--get the individual-level dynamics. That's how you can still have people (nationally and internationally) who are still lost in the sauce centuries later.
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