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...Mohammad Kenyatta isn't just like any political hustler. He's special. Anybody who believes, as Mr. Kenyatta does, that the high unemployment rate and skills deficiency among Afro-Americans can be attributed "to the failure of past civil rights strategies" can believe anything. Though civil rights leaders made mistakes in the past and are still making some today, blame for the job and skills crisis plaguing perhaps 35 percent of Blacks belongs one place only--at the feet of America's economic and political elite who lack the moral vision to confront the chronic unemployment of Blacks in post...
...understanding of affirmative action isn't much better. This policy's problems, according to Mr. Kenyatta, "stem from traditional ties between American Blacks and the liberal White establishment." The fact is that White liberals, in both the private and government sectors, have been and remain the strongest supporters of affirmative action. In fact, most Whites support the policy. A Harris survey in 1982 (Aug,) shows that a majority of voters, by 69 percent to 21 percent, favors "laws requiring affirmative action programs for women and minorities in employment, provided there are no figid quotas...
Most of us are wrong sometimes; Mr. Kenyatta makes a habit of it. Michael Dorniag's article remarks, for example, that Mr. Kenyatta "says the liberal civil rights establishment--and he counts [Julius] Chambers and [Jack] Greenberg among its members--is pushing busing policies on Whites and Blacks that neither of them want." First, it is incorrect that most adult Blacks oppose busing, but it is correct that most Whites do. A Gallup survey in 1980 found 82 percent of Whites opposed to busing, but 67 percent of Blacks favored busing. But data on Whites who experienced busing show...
Finally, Mr. Kenyatta's fondness for cussing-out White liberals has clearly marred his thinking. How else can one explain his observation that "the ideological and strategic impasse at which Black America finds itself is a result of our leadership having tied itself to the liberal agenda?" There is no poll data or other evidence showing that Blacks think they are facing an ideological dead-end. A 1979 Roper survey found 80 percent of Blacks "agreeing" that "life for our children will be better than for us." A 1981 Roper survey found 69 percent of Blacks responding "very good...
...Kenyatta is sure he is as dedicated to civil rights now as he was when he was a student at Tougaloo. Although others may think differently, he does not think anything in his past or present is inconsistent with his support for minority issues...