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"understanding" the bush administration's "war on terror" as a "war against Evil" is consistent with the outlines of the admninstration's marketing campaign for war---but it is particularly dangerous in the context of this "war" because the boundary that seperates response from racism is so fine, and so difficult to manage. importing theological categories, here as elsewhere, functions to erase and/or transpose racism shifting it from a choice to something that appears necessary--as such it is a really dangerous move. and totally uninformative as a matter of thinking about policy, about politics, etc.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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