As the saying goes it is not what you know but who you know.

I am going to add in-and this is not nothing to excuse the behaviour-but I interviewed a few potential employees. It came down to two. One white, one black. Even though the black candidate was better qualified I did not like his disposition. He came across with a non winners attitude. The white guy had a "go get em," attitude, and a positive out look. I will value those qualities over technical skill any day.

'Attitude,' eh? Sounds like the kind of subjective pretext white people often use to discriminate against blacks . . . and Hispanics.

LatinoPundit should remember his/her words whenever he/she is interviewed by a white person who believes he/she is better suited to pick grapes.

LatinoPundit should remember his/her words whenever he/she is interviewed by a white person who believes he/she is better suited to pick grapes.

LatinoPundit should remember his/her words whenever he/she is interviewed by a white person who believes he/she is better suited to pick grapes.

I think Den Beste put it best when he said: The philosophic justification for the "root causes" argument that we've heard so much about is the point: individual racists are not necessarily evil, even though racism is. Individual racists can be loving and compassionate chauvinistic contempt.

It reached its most pathological in Fisk's notorious attempt to explain away his being beaten by a crowd in Pakistan as ultimately being the result of western imperialism.

This attitude is racism of the characters. There are no villains in the movie, because it's not about that. By soft-pedaling the racism and yet never ducking it, the movie makes a more profound statement about it than some other films which pound it into the ground and paint all the characters as caricatures.

But it goes deeper than that: if we are responsible, then they will live good lives. They are less than we are. This is deeply loving and compassionate chauvinistic contempt.

Mark V. Shaney
"Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat!"

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