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What white people learned from the Civil Rights era was how not to appear to be racists, even to themselves. They came away from the 1960s knowing th… - Crispin Sartwell
" "What white people learned from the Civil Rights era was how not to appear to be racists, even to themselves. They came away from the 1960s knowing that racism was a matter of using the wrong words or expressing the wrong attitudes publicly. They trained their internal monologues to mirror an egalitarian or deracinated public discourse: no slurs, just a continual stream of . That was the essence of white anti-racism: don't say the wrong thing.
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Crispin Gallagher Sartwell (born 1958) is an American philosopher, self-professed and journalist. He received his B.A. from the , his M.A. from and his from the —where his dissertation supervisor was Richard Rorty—-and is currently on leave from his position as a member of the faculty of in .
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Behind all the Great-Society-style /anti-poverty/education programs lurked all the old stereotypes: blacks as animalistic, criminal, sexual, violent, and above all, as time went on, as . The white s are always diagnosing the dysfunctions and prescribing a cure for the black family: high-rise housing projects, and standardized testing, wars on poverty or drugs, self-esteem seminars. A good portion of the African-American population was simply institutionalized or interned, in public housing complexes, in urban schools, and in one of the biggest prison systems the world has ever known. It all amounts to a sprawling race gulag in which people are both dependent and hedged about with restrictions.
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