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Entry: Race, Nationalism, and Patriotism, Part I: Race Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/race_nationalism_and_patriotism_part_i_race#15523 Post contents: The problem of equivalencing race to family is that we have a different attachment to them. I feel kinship to my family and to those people I get to know through daily contact. Other people are more distant and abstract. I balk at the idea of feeling kinship towards Dick Cheney (as Obama was forced to do when he looked at his family tree...), Bush, any neo-con, Charlie Manson, or any one else whose only claim to such kinship is that their skin is as light as mine. I go and look back at the March for Life. Race conciousness would make me more beholden to a white abortionist than to a black marcher for Life. Ridiculous! Sent at: 2008 09 07