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Originally posted by InTheSlot+Sep 3 2005, 03:06 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (InTheSlot @ Sep 3 2005, 03:06 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Hakan@Sep 3 2005, 01:58 PM
Good for Kanye. He was making a statement about institutional racism IMO. Which, InTheSlot, is still very much alive and well today. Sure the days of white robe wearing freaks is not as prevalent but insidious and more invisible racism happens all the time in the United States and Canada.
I recommend the book, The World is a Ghetto by Howard Winant to illustrate the point of how race and racism is still as important now as it ever was.
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I'm not denying that it doesn't exist by any means, but I really do think people are blowing it out of proportion. There are some people out there who can't, and probably will never be able to get color out of their minds and look at people as mere individuals, rather than by race. [/b][/quote]
So does that mean you don't think it applies in this particular situation (ie. katrina releif)?