Azizi-

Nice work! And should we also provide links to the "yellow peril" diatribes that were printed in the newspapers in the late 19th and early 20th century? How can "enlightened Mudcatters" be so ignorant of our history of ethnocentrism? It boggles my mind. But than I haven't a clue what has been taught in the last 20 years.

Other Mudcatters-

Institutional racism as practiced in the States against Black Americans is still alive and well, in my opinion. A Black middle class may be growing but too many are still trapped in substandard housing, substandard schools, and poorly paid jobs. There will always be a tendency by some to "blame the victims" for their plight but I can't imagine that proposition would hold up under any kind of social research scruntiny. Certainly, we all know individuals who have given up or pray on their own but that is not the general situation, nor should it be,

I would love to parachute a couple of our self-righteous posters into a Black urban ghetto and observe how long they would survive. But that would be oh so wrong!

Charley Noble