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To: George Coyne who wrote (156313)	6/28/2001 1:26:53 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Yes. I've read this book. It is quite good. Unfortunately those who need to read it won't or can't, and their so-called "leaders" won't teach them from it because they have in bitterness rejected it out-of-hand. It seems many blacks are climbing out of the mire nevertheless. McWhorter is but one of them. It is a pleasure to see. Perhaps in a hundred years or so blacks will no longer suffer the pains of slavery and will be able to read and discuss the issue as if it happened to a people long dead.

To: George Coyne who wrote (156313)	6/28/2001 1:30:32 PM
From: goldworldnet	Respond to of 769670

<<Prejudice may also play some part: despite an encouraging abatement of bigotry, many whites continue to view blacks in a less positive light than they view new immigrants, whatever their color or nationality. Then there is black poverty—the persistence of a small but intractable black underclass—that no notion of voluntary ethnicity seems likely to dispel. But perhaps the greatest obstacle of all is the angry, separatist attitudes so prevalent in much of black America, both poor and middle-class. That doing well in school is “acting white,” that the only way to be manly is to be ruthlessly predatory, that to cooperate with “the system” is to betray one’s origins: it is not difficult to see how this oppositional culture might prevent any significant softening of the hard outlines of racial identity among many blacks.>> acri.org * * *