Is Structural Racism a Cover for Economic Inequality?
from the race angle as the man stands for a lot more than just his bi-racial ancestry. It felt as if talking about his race would somehow distract from his 21st-century global persona. Followers of U.S. Politics have been scratching their heads over recent phenomena like the ‘birther’ movement, the silly ‘tea parties’, and the riveting signs and antics of right-wing (and exclusively white) demonstrators in the United States. A pattern has started to emerge — a pattern that finally hit home for a lot of us at the same time, and which Maureen Dowd of the New York Times captured quite well in “Boy, Oh, Boy” (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/opinion/13dowd.htm). Structural Racism and Social Mobility Rich Benjamin (http://www.richbenjamin.com/about.html) is writing a book called ‘Whitopia’, and he has divided racism into ‘interpersonal racism and structural racism’, and he concludes that while the former is going down, the latter is still there. He also finds class differences to be a maj
