The Illusive Race Question & Class:
A Bacteria That Constantly Mutates

by

Rodolfo F. Acuña
California State University, Northridge

Occasional Paper No. 59
November 2005

 

Racism resembles bacteria. It has an uncanny ability to resist cures. Like bacteria, racism includes variants with unusual traits which have the ability to withstand an antibiotic attack on a microbe. For the moment the drug or laws kill the defenseless bacteria, “leaving behind — or ‘selecting,’ in biological terms — those that can resist it. These renegade bacteria then multiply, increasing their numbers a millionfold in a day, becoming the predominant microorganism.” My point is that we once believed that racism had been defined and that we were on our way to eradicate this ugly social disease only to find it active and well, but in another form.

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