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

[David Kellogg]

Anthony--

I think Annalisa knows more about this than I do, but it seems to me that
Mr. Dave is trying to reinterpret events in the USA using concepts that are
related to the ancient Hindu system of caste. Castes are not races (they
are even less tied to pigmentation than race), and they are certainly not
classes (they are reproduced by marriage and the family rather than by
relations of production): I suppose they are something like kinship groups
that are tied for historical as well as religious reasons to particular
professions. Because they are emphasized in religion (and more recently in
India's communal politics) they can certainly be said to be "socio-mental"
in quality. Somehow I don't think that this is what Andy has in mind when
he says that cultural artefacts bring the WHOLE of culture into
interpersonal interaction and suspend the distinction between social theory
and psychology!


David Kellogg
Sangmyung University

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On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 8:24 PM Anthony Barra <anthonymbarra@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Sorry, I have no idea what you're talking about here, although my sense is
> that it's wildly wrong, in various ways. I am confused but hope you have a
> nice day, regardless.
>
> Anthony
>
>
>
> On Sunday, June 21, 2020, Harshad Dave <hhdave15@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Atten.: Anthony Barra and David Kellog.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is with reference to your replies to my message. I am thankful for
>> the same and regret for the delay in reply. I used the word “apartheid”
>> just in the sense of racism, complains of blacks/brown that they are
>> discriminated in social dealing by whites etc. David Kellog - Thanks for
>> the detail source of the word “apartheid”, however I request you to take
>> its meaning in the same sense as expressed above. The suggested/recommended
>> articles are viewed in a glancing by me; I recall I have read them (one or
>> more) on Academia web. You will agree their subject matter is different.
>> Anthony Barra – The article that was recommended by you is read by me and
>> it touches on various realities in the subject matter of our topic.
>>
>> I just put my views against the question I asked in my message dtd. 17
>> June 2020.
>>
>> There are two most probable answers.
>>
>> 1.      The turned out black European people will be the victim of
>> racism (discrimination) by the turned out white people from African origin.
>>
>> 2.      The situation remains the same and the world will see protests
>> and fights on an issue or against a complaining that the black European
>> people discriminate white people of African origin in the USA.
>>
>> I leave it to the readers to give their logical consideration to the one
>> out of the above two, but my opinion says the second answer will hold good,
>> but one should not forget it is just true on hypothetical presumption.
>>
>> It is a mistake to believe that *the attitude of discrimination* and *sickness
>> of racism *harbor in the color of the skin. In fact above
>> altitude/sickness is founded on the difference of *mental socio economic
>> formation status* of two men. There is a basic difference between the
>> two statuses of *mental socio economic formation *of black people of
>> African origin and that of white people of European origin. I believe that
>> a mass of people constituting a society with advanced socio economic
>> formation has fair chances to exploit the mass of people constituting a
>> society with backward socio economic formation. It is equally true for two
>> classes of peoples at different *mental socio economic formation status*
>> also. But, here (in the USA) both the classes of people are living in the
>> same society with one *constitution* and uniform *rule of laws*. It is
>> absurd to believe that the present socio economic formation of the society
>> of the USA (21st century) has prevailed and occupied equally and
>> uniformly by each and every citizen of the USA. One might find various
>> people in the present society of the USA with different levels of *mental
>> socio economic formation status*. It is really a complicated situation
>> when the society is throughout with the latest socio economic formation and
>> members of the society are with varying levels of *mental socio economic
>> formation status* in the same society. Let me present part of the
>> message of Abraham Lincoln before I finish this message.
>>
>> Fourth Debate: Charleston, Illinois – September 18, 1858.
>>
>> “*I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of
>> bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white
>> and black races, [applause]-that I am not nor ever have been in favor of
>> making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office,
>> nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this
>> that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which
>> I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of
>> social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while
>> they do remain together there must be the position of superior and
>> inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior
>> position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not
>> perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the
>> negro should be denied everything.*”
>>
>>
>>
>> Here it is between the lines that difference in the *mental socio
>> economic formation status* could be compensated to some extent, but for
>> equality people with backward *mental socio economic formation status*
>> will have to work hard to develop the same.
>>
>> I clarify, neither I am in favor of nor against the victims of the issue
>> of discrimination and racism as far as my contemplation on the subject
>> matter is to be carried out. But, I just want to explain where the real
>> cause harbors.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Harshad Dave
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 6:01 PM David Kellogg <dkellogg60@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> New Article: Ruqaiya Hasan, in memoriam: A manual and a manifesto.
>>> Outlines, Spring 2020
>>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://tidsskrift.dk/outlines/article/view/116238__;!!Mih3wA!RXrfjFcig6lgo_VFBO6_DclKUalDjTYnfOYLATaoG7ZXAcT5neO5r_kzdeBzNlhqizy-AA$ 
>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://tidsskrift.dk/outlines/article/view/116238__;!!Mih3wA!Q_T1T-yScWKk-O8fAQy2MGeFpRYlWFTJaOfWiNV6OlC8kQDKN2JeAffKU6p3X_X_g6SDzw$>
>>> New Translation with Nikolai Veresov: *L.S. Vygotsky's Pedological
>>> Works* *Volume One: Foundations of Pedology*"
>>>  https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811505270__;!!Mih3wA!RXrfjFcig6lgo_VFBO6_DclKUalDjTYnfOYLATaoG7ZXAcT5neO5r_kzdeBzNlgzCrP1qw$ 
>>>
>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811505270__;!!Mih3wA!Q_T1T-yScWKk-O8fAQy2MGeFpRYlWFTJaOfWiNV6OlC8kQDKN2JeAffKU6p3X_VyIA0yng$>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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