tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2200669326669138986.post7984676520333189236..comments2024-03-17T06:04:30.315-04:00Comments on The Next Stage: Women and Retirement: Regular folks are talking more about racism and sharing their storieskarenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14135222421004804653noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2200669326669138986.post-60207023337864381052009-09-18T09:45:39.534-04:002009-09-18T09:45:39.534-04:00Thanks Tim, for your thoughtful comment. You are r...Thanks Tim, for your thoughtful comment. You are right—-this is much more than a black/white issue and the immigration dimension has gotten lost in much of the coverage. There are people who are totally freaked out that the country is becoming multi-ethnic. I think you should put these thoughts together in a blog post--maybe for YPP.karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14135222421004804653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2200669326669138986.post-15647673206558511832009-09-18T02:12:38.498-04:002009-09-18T02:12:38.498-04:00I haven't really commented about this anywhere...I haven't really commented about this anywhere else, but I've been mulling it over for a while. Here are some stray thoughts:<br /><br />1. Did racism play a role in what Rep. Wilson did? Part of me wants to say: This is America. Of course racism played a part. It's everywhere - and with Wilson's history, probably more deeply ingrained there. The question is whether it's there in a more tangible, less indirect way than this. And there, it seems like there's a lot of displacement happening.<br /><br />2. In particular, it's displacing onto Wilson some of the straight-up and only-slightly-skewed racism against Obama that's elsewhere in the health care debate. Because the Wilson story is sticking, everything about the whole story is sticking to Wilson.<br /><br />3. It's also displacing racism as a complex, interlocking ideology onto a comparatively simple black-white racial scale. It's not accidental (I think) that the statement that provoked Wilson's outburst was about health care for illegal immigrants. Yet virtually all of the discussion has assumed that the only racism that's mattered here is Wilson's against Obama, rather than anything having to do with anti-immigration sentiment - or anything else, for that matter. <br /><br />It just makes everything distorted, silly -- easy to misunderstand, easy to discount.Tim Carmodyhttp://snarkmarket.comnoreply@blogger.com