[ExI] Class Differences Among Black People

[Olga Bourlin]

From: "Michael M. Butler" <mmbutler at gmail.com>
To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: [ExI] Class Differences Among Black People


> On 5/27/07, Olga Bourlin <fauxever at sprynet.com> wrote:
>
>> The main thing Sowell would love is to have YOU believe that he would 
>> LOVE
>> ... etc., etc., etc.  (Shhhhhhhh ... you see, Sowell is a kind of
>> prostitute.)
>
> Olga, not wanting to pick a fight here, just seeking calibration: Is
> Bill Cosby the same kind of prostitute? Is Cosby a Tom (you called
> Sowell that, as well, if I'm not mistaken)?

OK, I'll confess - the subject is more complex than that.  The complexity 
has to do with the fact that racism - while it may be the more "visible" and 
perhaps best known "ism" that needs to be deplored, is difficult to separate 
from some of the other "isms" that are not only NOT deplored (but should, 
IMO) - but lauded as something desirable.  And one of those other big "isms" 
is, indeed, exactly what we are talking about here - "classism" (see subject 
line).

Classism reeks to high hell.

But even "classism" is not the whole ball of wax - as I said, all the "isms" 
are interconnected and difficult to separate (e.g., I saw something recently 
about Falwell - how he integrated his church, so that's not supposed to make 
him a racist, perhaps; however, Falwell was a well known homophobe and 
anti-secularist and a few other unsavory "isms").

That's really what I believe. But, since you asked, I would have to say that 
I think that Cosby does play the "Tom" role, as well.

Those racist stereotypes (Tom, Coon, Tragic Mulatto, Buck, the Magic Negro, 
etc.) did not begin with Sowell or Cosby - they've been around a long time 
in American society - playing mostly to the audience of and to the benefit 
of ... "whites."

I will try to address in another post/reply to Lee.  Maybe not tonight 
(running out of time).

Olga