More about Eurocentrism

[barbara100 at jps.net]

It's the second time you've said that.  It has me on edge, like at any
minute some Ward Connerly creature is gonna leap out of the screen and singe
my eyebrows. You Californians hear he's back with something for the ballot?
How about a belief that we should afford "opportunities to advance" to
Compensate for how much we've "deprived"?  It's not about "intellectual
equals,"  it's about even playing fields.

----- Original Message -----
From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: More about Eurocentrism


> A belief that only when they have been afforded "opportunities to advance"
> can Africans and African-Americans become the "intellectual equals" of
> whites is another catchcry of the Eurocentric point of view.
>
> best