[Xmca-l] Re: Your views on a question.

[David Kellogg]

Dear Harshad:

I am still a little stunned by the last post you wrote, with all the
references to predatory shopkeepers. It sounded like the stuff of a pogrom.
As we discussed in the "My Hometown Minneapolis" thread, the threats to
shopkeepers in Minneapolis often targeted South Asians, and had nothing to
do with the police (except that the police may have been involved and
certainly profitted from the looting politically).

"Apartheid" is a term invented by the South African sociologist Verwoerd,
who studied with the Gestalists. Some Gestaltists, like Narziss Ach and
Felix Krueger, became Nazis; Verwoerd himself became, as you probably know,
prime minister of South Africa and brought in the system of apartheid which
Gandhi struggled against during his early years. The term used in my
hometown Minneapolis is not "apartheid" but segregation: it is
euphemistically referred to as "redlining" (by insurance companies) and
"racial covenants" but not as "apartheid".

Segregation and Jim Crow in Minneapolis is not based on pigmentation. Many
"white" people are darker than blacks, and many black people are lighter
than whites, because of the centuries of rape and the enthusiasm of slave
owners for the practice of selling their own children. The last time I
visited the "housing project"near where I grew up it was full of Hmong from
Southeast Asia. Segregation in Minneapolis is above all a matter of class.

David Kellogg
Sangmyung University

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On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 4:16 PM Harshad Dave <hhdave15@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Dear all there,
>
> We all are aware of the event of the death of George Floyd in the USA
> under police custody. There are flows of opinions, comments and views on
> the event with different aspects all over the world. There are debates and
> discussions on the event on innumerable web sites, we find them in
> newspapers and among the talks of people at private and public places. We
> just do not talk about riots and other events happened under agony and out
> burst of anger on the unfortunate death of Floyd, however, voice against
> apartheid was the major cry behind them.
> Though there are various vital aspects of the event, *apartheid* remained
> prime of them.
> I simply ask one question to my friends who read this post.
>
> Let us hypothetically presume, on one day fine morning, when people of the
> USA awake, they find that skin color of all the blacks is changed to
> perfectly white like european people and the skin color of all the
> europeans changed to black like negro.
> I ask my friends, "What will be the status of *apartheid* in this
> situation?"
>
> NB: I write one article on the ill fated event and its aspects. Your views
> on the above question will help me to write my views with more clarity in
> the article.
>
> Regards,
>
> Harshad Dave
>
>
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