Re: Why Beijing?

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Class can have multiple meanings since there can be multiple
classification systems.
And you are focusing on the wrong one.

Supposing there's such a thing as the wrong one, what would it have
taken for Nelson Bunker Hunt to have become one of "the right low
class" after his bankruptcy? If the court had stripped him to his last
penny, would he then have been of that class?

What is the "hierarchy" of races among your favorite racists?
white
colored: Indian, Pakistani origin
black: Zulu, Xhosa, etc.
I gather you have never visited the United States. The above has
absolutely no meaning whatsoever in the context under consideration;
Wouldn't a KKK don treat Zulu and Yoruba immigrants as being of a
There's no such thing as a "Zulu or Yoruba immigrant." There are South
Aftican or Nigerian immigrants. They would obviously be Africans, and
would be very unlikely to be anywhere near any place that has Klansmen.

Are you sure that someone like Kunta Kinte was certainly not Yoruba and
had no Yoruba coworkers? (There was a Yoruba next to me when I went for
my naturalization ceremony.)

different class and different race from his, as opposed to a white
civil rights activist who would treat them as being of the same class
as his but a different race for affirmative action purposes?

So you also don't know what affirmative action is ...

The Bakke Case
Race, Education, and Affirmative Action
http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/balbak.html

nor are those three lines "classes"; and you have omitted "Orientals"
entirely.
... for good reason. South Africa's classification system didn't have
an "oriental" class. Someone else's might have an Oriental class.
One. More. Time. What does South Africa have to do with racial tension
in the USA?

Nothing. It was an example of social classes based on something other
than wealth or occupation.

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