J. R. Molloy writes
> I think anyone who contends that Fred Reed's spoof was racist is a racist.
While that remark perhaps applies to me---under some people's
definition, I am a racist---how can you claim that it applies
to everyone? Consider the following
> People in, say, Switzerland can walk their streets after
> dark. We can't. Why? What have we got that they don't,
> that might cause fear?
Isn't the implication (especially in context, if you go back
and look) that *the* reason is that we, in the U.S., have black
people and the lucky Swiss do not? I believe that this lays the
fear of walking the streets after dark entirely at the feet
of black people. (Sorry for the overloaded metaphors, there.)
But then, if the most rigorous-minded student must conclude that
this passage is racist, then how can it follow that he must be
racist himself?
Lee
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