@All. Read the article. Hmmm. Sorry to get a bit academic for a second. There is a lot of this stuff around, it's a new fad in cultural studies, eg media studies and other post modern schools; looking at mattters of identity. We have have racial, sexual, sexuality and this is the new lick.

It's about analysing and deconstructing "whiteness" or how white people form their various social identities in relation to other people eg us and others.

But I wouldn't take it too seriously, even though there are things to learn from almost anything.

Let me extend a point which Blackmatta correctly identified. But I will rephrase it, in the way the principle was taught to me and I hope you guys see the value of it[fingers crossed].

1. Be careful at the information you direct black people to,even if the info seems useful on a particular level

2. When directing our people to information, try as best as you can to direct them to authorative sources, written by our own people. Failing that then continue.

Ask yourself if you had one piece of written information to give to a black person, who would only read one thing, from what source would you choose it. I suggest a black person.

3. Who you cite, or quote, or refer others to you empower, give authority to, and also indirectly money to. You take from one person and give to another. Consequently, I could find myself, promoting others, who do not directly have our interests at heart, while ignoring anyone here or similar people who have something of validity to contribute to our people on mulitple levels.

Any black person in the publishing, adcademic/writers or in other areas of potential intellectual leadership, will tell you how our igorance weakens our own power, and empowers those who are fundamentally opposed to our interest and already have superior opportunties and structures compared to us.

Hence why Blackmatta's comment about providing other sources, written by our people, directly going to the heart of the matter, not indirectly, I think would always be my prefered option in this type of circumstance.

By the way, we can see the various ways white people see themselves and form key aspects of their identities, by observing the comments of people like Geoff on the Zimbabwe land thread and Blackmatta's examination of him.

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