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To: Second_Titan who wrote (80665)12/4/2000 1:34:34 PM
From: isopatch  Read Replies (1) of 95453
 
OT/007. An incisive piece. Thanks. The closing is worth repeating:

"There is great pathos, if not tragedy, in images of Mr. Jackson screaming "Keep hope alive" from the pulpits of black churches in Florida. After all, this is not the civil-rights movement. This is the political campaign of a privileged white baby-boomer who has no more than pandered to black fears for his own gain.

To rally blacks into a monolith, as if Mr. Gore's candidacy were a liberation struggle, not only wastes moral capital but also makes blacks the easiest group in American politics to take for granted. They simply become a given, a constituency of "ultra" Democrats whose price is so cheap because their loyalty is so obvious.

Full Parity

What black America deserves is a leadership that ignites our energies with the idea that personal responsibility -- despite past or even present suffering -- is the only power that can truly deliver us to full parity with others. But today's black leadership only rallies blacks with a sense of their victimization into a voting campaign that promises nothing more than a little exceptionalism. And this as the sun begins to set on affirmative action.

Having lost faith in the capacities of its own people -- having bought into the defamation that blacks are intractably weak without white intervention -- this leadership uses hard-earned black moral capital to chase the likes of Mr. Gore, and flatters itself that it can provide him with muscle. This, after going to bat for O.J. Simpson and bodyguarding for a philandering president who thanked them by suggesting that his very philandering made him "the first black president."

At no time in American history have blacks suffered from a leadership so lost, and so absurd."

Bet her book is a good read.

Iso
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