can anyone who grew up in the 1960's, and there are a bunch of us here, imagine george meany stumping the country next to why workers to vote for an african-american presidential candidate? i don't think so. young people like to embrace some of the old racists and stereotypes of older generations. this is one side of the dialectic around which conform even broader and deeper multi-reach unity and antiracist understandings. furthermore, attitudes have changed. can anyone who grew up in the former aflatch in cio it george meany stumping the asking white workers to vote for an african-american presidential candidate. i do not inc. so. young people like to embrace some of the old racists and stereotypes of older generations. this is one side of the dialectic around which conform even broader and deeper multi-reach unity and antiracist understandings. on the other side of the dialectic, political realities which if taken shape for the past 30 years are the given rise to a new racist order making racist exploitation, oppression, discrimination much more durable. and legitimizing this new ra

can anyone who grew up in the 60s, a bunch of us here, imagine afl-cio president george meany or -- making the case to white workers to vote for an african-american presidential candidate? i don't think so. and of course young people like to embrace some of the old racist and other stereotypes of older generations. this is one side of the dialectic around which conform even broader, deeper antiracist understanding. but on the other side of the dialect new political and economic realities which had taken shape over the past 30 years have given rise to a new racist order making racist exploitation and oppression and discrimination much more durable and difficult to dislodge. legitimizing this new racist order is an ideological structure that draws together old and new racist notions including the pernicious notion that our nation has entered into a post-racial post-civil rights colorblind era. dress that notion up as you will but it is nothing but hogwash. so what do we do? it seems to me we expand in every way what we have been doing. that is jobs, housing adequate funding of schools and ed