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...common for the liberal intelligentsia to condemn "Western Civilization" as nothing but a euphemism for white male oppression--everything that we should be expunging from our racist, sexist, homophobic society...
...radio, every television, every newspaper, and every billboard conditions us to believe that the accumulation of material possessions is the purpose of life. Thus, it is not surprising that poor Americans demand the same advantages that their more fortunate neighbors have, and I would be the last one to condemn someone for feeling this way. Still, it is sad that self-sufficiency and working no longer carries a sense of dignity and accomplishment...
...RIGHT TO POINT OUT AND CONdemn the reprehensible practice of blaming blacks for crimes. But it's naive to wonder why this happens. The black homicide rate is nine times the white. Those who falsely accuse are using plausibility to strengthen their claims...
Maddox also spends a great deal of time confronting the flip-side to this sexual openess, namely, Lawrence's misogyny. Wisely, she seeks neither to excuse nor to unequivocally condemn her subject. In the first chapter of D.H. Lawrence, Maddox focuses on one of the author's early short stories. "The Old Adam," which centers around a "seductive three-year-old called Mary," emerges as both an unpleasant display of misogyny and a stunningly precocious pre-Freudian fable...
...unconscionable to write off the deaths of two children as some misguided political gesture or a symptom of societal discontent. While Lezarna's attempt to enfranchise women is a noble one, her reluctance to condemn Smith outright is both an egregious oversight and an oversimplication of an unjust act. Julie R. Cooper...