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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#15579 Post contents: Thank you Mr. Richert for your thoughtful article. I appreciate your simple combination of common sense and orthodoxy , those things which of course go together, but are often thought to be somehow polar opposites. "What my black neighbor and I do share is, in this case, far more important and concrete than what I share abstractly with the hundreds of millions of white men I’ll never meet," Thank you for articulating this important point. It always annoys me to read about the necessity for an overwhelming racial solidarity that demands that I ignore my black friends, neighbors and inlaws and pretend that I have a sacred link with every Finn, Frenchmen and Fleming whom I have no connection but common humanity and the smallest genetic link. Sent at: 2008 09 05