[Xmca-l] Re: My Hometown Minneapolis

[Andy Blunden]

There is a good run through of the data here: 
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxPVSdHT5MQ&t=1365s__;!!Mih3wA!TTpYwLwgt8a0qUfpHv1qmNoajkLwHRw-6pwpeltWAK58o0kIvPQrZpmOzAuLaxJXFJPmZg$  
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxPVSdHT5MQ&t=1365__;!!Mih3wA!TTpYwLwgt8a0qUfpHv1qmNoajkLwHRw-6pwpeltWAK58o0kIvPQrZpmOzAuLaxINhXE5ew$ >

that's 22m45s in.

Andy

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On 10/06/2020 1:13 am, Peg Griffin, Ph.D. wrote:
>
> Yes everyone suffers, but it is about white supremacy 
> rather than racism.
>
> Other people in other places have other things, maybe 
> other race supremacies to rise against.
>
> Whether it’s race or not, it’s people with the knees on 
> the necks that must lead and be followed.
>
> Who follows, here, is whoever isn’t a white supremacist.
>
> It is painful and time taking to apprehend what white 
> privilege means in action. It is difficult to persevere in 
> the denial of white privilege in one’s own life.
>
> It’s a careful distinction – between white supremacy and 
> racism.
>
> Here and now the reduction to racism deflects us to an 
> “epigenetic byway,” provides room to protect dangerous 
> institutions and practices, to produce misshapen changes. 
>  White supremacists make references to, praise, make 
> symbols of, people who are not white whose jobs or 
> statements or health; it is supposed to be prima facie 
> evidence that they aren’t racist. More long term and 
> subtly, it divides us, hides them, and maligns and 
> degrades us.
>
> The ties that bind white supremacy and fascism are 
> blatant, as Mike’s references to the late 30’s highlight.
>
> PG
>
> *From:*xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu 
> [mailto:xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu] *On Behalf Of 
> *Andy Blunden
> *Sent:* Monday, June 8, 2020 11:02 PM
> *To:* xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu
> *Subject:* [Xmca-l] Re: My Hometown Minneapolis
>
> No, the American Century is over, I believe, even if 
> America can take a leading part in ushering in the new 
> epoch, I think it will be to release the rest of the world 
> from the USA's mania to micromanage everyone else. The 
> pandemic was, I think, the catalyst which brought the 
> issues to the surface which were bubbling away for a long 
> time. And might I venture the opinion that the vast 
> investment in this BLM movement by young "white" people is 
> in large part because cops kill a hell of a lot of white 
> kids as well, and everyone is suffering under the system 
> in which African Americans are victimised.
>
> Andy
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> *Andy Blunden*
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> On 9/06/2020 12:11 pm, Martin Packer wrote:
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>     On Jun 8, 2020, at 8:34 PM, Andy Blunden
>     <andyb@marxists.org <mailto:andyb@marxists.org>> wrote:
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>         Even in the depths of degradation and ignominy
>         America can lead, it seems.
>
>     This is something worth and worthy of theorizing,
>     isn’t it?! Turns out the World Perezhivanie is not the
>     coronavirus, or at least not the coronavirus alone. It
>     is racism. And the global subject that has just been
>     formed has found its lead in the US. The US Century
>     may not be over after all!
>
>     Martin
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