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To: asenna1 who wrote (116602)	12/15/2000 4:02:25 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

And you believe this claptrap? The John Birch Society is a practically defunct fringe group, with little influence in mainstream conservative circles......

To: asenna1 who wrote (116602)	12/16/2000 9:42:07 AM
From: briskit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

asenna, do you adhere to the teachings of Antipas? I am impressed you located their website as they appear a bit obscure at first glance. That is, they are in the running for a fringe group status.

To: asenna1 who wrote (116602)	12/16/2000 9:57:53 AM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 769670

RACIAL SEPARATION NOT A FACTOR IN THE MERITOCRACY The separation which ultimately divides the members of the New Communities from the outside world, then, is merit; and people who talk today in terms of racial, religious, and cultural separation are missing the point altogether. To be sure race and culture still continue to be factors among those who have been left behind, those who have not made the transition, the jump into the hyper-drive of America II. Today, however, they serve merely to divide losers from losers, such as poor Latinos from poor blacks or poor whites or even Koreans in, places like South-Central L.A. - and no doubt this kind of separation can still be virulent. Nonetheless, this is not the kind of separation which today is dominating the social processes which are currently at work in this country. One incident more than any other is illustrative of this point: the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. A large number of high achieving black men and women on both sides testified, but most striking were those who appeared in defense of Thomas. These were blacks who have clearly made the jump into the new Meritocracy - super-achievers like John Dogget, Leonard Cooper, Clifford Hardwick, Lovida Coleman, and Delores Rozzi who rejected any help from the outside and were determined to make it on their own. Moreover, and perhaps most astonishingly, these were black men and women who had plainly disavowed the old black establishment associated with the Civil Rights movement of the '50s and '60s; people who seemed to feel more at home as equals with the Donald Trumps of this world than with the Vernon Jordans. Indeed, these blacks are among the fiercest critics of the black underclass; many of them are far more likely to "blame the victim" rather than the system. They stress the importance of individual character, morals, and culture in achieving success - assertions which, if they were made by white conservatives, would be branded as racist. Typical of the thinking of blacks and other minorities which - together with majority whites - make up the New Meritocracy, are the thoughts of Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Professor of Humanities at Harvard and a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant. Gates writes: "The fact is, Afro-America's affluent elite is larger than it has ever been ... Today many black Americans enjoy a measure of economic security beyond any we have known in the history of black America ... We (are) members of the black upper middle class ... We are isolated from (and in no way a part of) the black underclass ... (And) those (of us) who succeed are those whose ... families prepared them to be successful. As Stanley Crouch and others remind us, the familiar exhortation in those days was to 'get all the education that you can' - and we did ... To continue to repeat the same old formulas - to blame, in exactly the same ways, 'the (white) man' for oppressing us all, to scapegoat Koreans, Jews ... for seizing the entrepreneurial opportunities that have, for whatever reason, eluded us - is to fail to accept the moral leadership. Not to demand that each member of the black community accept individual responsibility for his behavior - whether that behavior assumes the form of gang violence, unprotected sexual activity, you name it - is another way of selling out a beleaguered community. It is to surrender to the temptations to act as ethnic cheerleaders (like the old black "Civil Rights" establishment) 'selling woof tickets' - engaging in hollow rhetoric ... ."2 These blacks are typical of the men and women - black, white, brown, etc. - who today make up the New Meritocracy, populate the New Communities, and make the new global economy "roll and go." Written By S. R. Shearer - Antipas Ministries isrp.org