tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post5977401341274482505..comments2023-03-24T21:49:49.118-04:00Comments on Dubious Prospects: Someday I will be less of a cabbageGraydonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09839374676813519438noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post-65147225986067310822016-11-20T22:22:52.409-05:002016-11-20T22:22:52.409-05:00+James Burbidge
"I've got mine" is ...+James Burbidge<br /><br />"I've got mine" is very basic, yes, but the expression of what is just is not. I don't see much attempt to produce any justification other than whiteness.<br /><br />Whiteness as an ethnogenesis -- as an explanation for why it was good and righteous to go steal things from the natives -- is much older than the particularly American notion of whitenessGraydonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09839374676813519438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post-47090334003940910462016-11-15T22:55:16.804-05:002016-11-15T22:55:16.804-05:00That may be too narrow a formulation. There's ...That may be too narrow a formulation. There's a long history of the electorate (generally middle class) not wanting their money to go to destinations that don't benefit them directly, but formulating it in terms of whiteness is more recent and narrower than, say, the old concern with "sturdy beggars" or the "undeserving poor"; the ideology behind the workhouse was not Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08260408210075989094noreply@blogger.com