Word: farrakahn
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...course, if blacks react to whites' reaction to Farrakhan, whites react to blacks' reaction to Farrakahn. It is not unusual to hear whites saying, in effect, "Now that it's clear they hate us, it's O.K. for us to hate them." Glenn Loury, a conservative black thinker and Boston University professor, says, "Farrakhan makes it more respectable for white racism to flourish." That is a cop-out both blacks and whites must work to resist. "The threat to American democracy is not black racism," Loury says. "It's white racism...
...Rhetorical excesses define Farrakhan, while respect for words are the hallmark of intellectuals like Cruse and West. Furthermore, Farrakhan emphasizes a pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps mentality that is at odds with the approaches of both Cruse and West to the problem of cultural and intellectual rejuvenation. Farrakahn is a man of money--not of the mind...
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