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June 11, 2004

Interesting, isn't it?

Quote of note:

Democratic Rep. Julie Dennis of Muskegon called the amendment racist.

Republican House Speaker Rick Johnson quickly pointed out four Democrats voted for the affirmative action amendment: Steve Bieda of Warren, Jennifer Elkins of Lake, Matt Gillard of Alpena and Lisa Wojno of Warren. But all four voted against the overall budget.

“They’ve got to be calling them racist too,” said Johnson, of LeRoy.

The reason the quote is to be noted:It seems Mr. Johnson's concern is that he not be the ONLY racist.

I've said before that Black people's problem with racism is different than white people's problem with racism. I'm now going to just go ahead an piss folks off by stating what I think white people's problem with racism is.

Racism is the one concept that is universally seen as evil in the USofA (torture used to be in that category, but well…). And it is irrevocably tied to race-based slavery in the USofA, which is the undeniable creation of white America. White folks are as collective as any other set of humans, and to me the most interesting thing about that is the collective belief that they are absolute individuals. Because of this collective belief, they take both too much credit and too much blame for collective actions. This means asserting the continued existence of racism is, to them, an assertion of their personal evil.

NO ONE will accept that.

The possible responses to this are to

rise above it

drag everyone down into it

Dragging everyone down is easier/quicker than growing. One can grow out of racism or the need to identify so absolutely with the collective, but to take that last path one must be aware that they are, indeed, in the collective. And the Caucasian Collective does not acknowledge it collectivity. So we get charges of reverse racism, exhortations to "get over it"...a phrase that ANNOYS THE HELL OUT OF ME because it is an acknowledgement that you got fucked AND that no one's going to do a damn thing about it. The activity of Alaskan king crabs-in-a-basket.

Anyway...

House debate produces scuffle over affirmative action revision
Budget drops college funds for preferential admission treatment

Associated Press

LANSING — A debate over affirmative action in the state House on Wednesday night resulted in a scuffle between two Democrats.

The incident happened in the House chambers after the Republican-controlled House narrowly approved next year’s higher education budget that included an amendment to prevent universities from receiving any state funding if they give preferential treatment to applicants.

The brief scuffle between Rep. Morris Hood, D-Detroit, and Alan Canady, House Minority Leader Dianne Byrum’s chief of staff, was the result of concern among some Democrats that the caucus had not done enough to stop the affirmative action amendment.

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