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...routine sounded like this: "Why, that dumb n-----....." Then the speaker would realize he was talking to someone (probably a Yankee), who might not be in harmony with going around saying "n-----." So the speaker might backpedal, with an unction of benevolence: "Uh, 'cose, you know, I don't mean nuthin' by that. (Squinting now into the middle distance, with a philosophical air; if outdoors, he might even spit speculatively.) "The way I figure, they'se white n------ as well as black...
...Cose they is. N------, you see, is a metaphysical concept rather than a racial designation, and as such, it partakes of the prestige of abstraction...
...certainly a creature of a Gannett system," said Newsweek contributing editor Ellis Cose. "But they do actually create some people who are very good...
...simply equip partisans with juicy quotations to score points?" And the book begs the question: If progress really is so great, why don't blacks believe it? Even those blacks who are high achievers are bitter about the racism they face (as witnesses another compelling book, Ellis Cose's The Rage of a Privileged Class, published in 1994). A recent poll for the New Yorker found that 65% of blacks say they have never been denied a job or promotion because of race--yet even a greater percentage believe racism remains a huge problem. Is this mass delusion or something...
...Cose holds the U.S. to a higher standard than other nations, it is because the U.S. boasts a higher standard. But he is forthrightly ambivalent on such well-intentioned initiatives as affirmative action. In principle he is against programs that discriminate in the name of ending discrimination. Yet he backs a limited use of the policy as the lesser of two evils...