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This racial approach, Mr. Gershman concluded, "has benefited those (blacks) least in need and has perpetuated the dependency of the (black) underclass." Because of this failure, the Black leadership has lost "credibility in the eyes of many Americans...
Both Mr. Clark and Mr. Gershman attack the "black middle-class leadership" for their inability to define the issue of Black dispossession in a clear and satisfactory manner and agree on the fact that the presence of a Black underclass bears ominous potentials for American democracy...
...debate between Kenneth Clark and Carl Gershman demonstrated once more the manner in which the bourgeoisie and one of its state ideological apparatuses (i.e. the Press) seek to distort the objective nature of social processes and through its empty kind of polemics seek to make the natives fight among themselves. It is not only that they seek to obfuscate the nature of the Afro-American condition but, through a series of self-reflecting mirrors, they attempt to project themselves as the saviors of Black people, if only we can give them the solution to a problem which they created...
...substantive question which arise from this debate was this: For whom does Mr. Gershman speak? Was he supposed to be more sympathetic of the Black underclass than the Black bourgeoisie? Or was he supposed to be the scholarly propagandist of the bourgeoisie class who clothed himself in the liberal veneer of bourgeoisie objectivity...
...will argue that Mr. Gershman's attack (like the Robert Klitgaard report now in preparation by Harvard University) is nothing more than another ideological onslaught which white America is now making against Black America, the activities of the Ku Klux Klan being the more vulgar manifestation of the same phenomenon. Such attacks, seek to pit Black people against other Black people (as the Klitgaard Report attempts to pit progressive Black people against progressive Jewish people) for the sake of the dominant white oppressor class...