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From my vantage point, these two events reflect a persistent need among many Blacks for cathartic responses or symbolic rebellious responses to racist patterns in American society. It never ceases to fascinate a pragmatic leftist member of the Black American intelligentsia like myself that the appetite for Black solidarist catharsis is still quite strong among competent Black middle-class students (or working-class students soon-to-become bourgeois professionals) at top-level colleges like our fair Harvard College...
This long-haul task--defined in activist uplift terms, not cathartic terms of Afro-Romanticism--is, of course, less symbolically stirring and solidaristically glamorous than your Kwanzaa Rituals celebration proposal, that's for certain. But from my vantage point as a pragmatic activist and leftist member of the Black intelligentsia, I can say without fear of contradiction that Rev. Rivers's kind of humanistic and activist outreach program will produce greater modern transformation and benefits for our massive Black poor population (32 percent of Black households, compared to 29 percent of Latino households) and 15 percent of white households...
...streets owes much of its energy to the lingering euphoria of Aristide's return. When U.S. soldiers chaperoned the President home seven weeks ago, the big question was whether he was up to the job. By most accounts, Haitian and American, Aristide appears a transformed man. Gone is the leftist firebrand who coyly refused to discipline the mob that brought him to power. Gone too is the self-righteous, mercurial contrarian of Washington exile. In their place is a man whom experience has imbued with wisdom, a newfound respect for dialogue and a deft skill for the politics of pragmatism...
...have never corrupted anyone," was Berlusconi's indignant response to the accusations, which he claimed were part of a campaign aimed at his conservative government by leftist magistrates. The Prime Minister contended that his companies never attempted bribery but were victims of corrupt tax inspectors who had extorted money in exchange for favorable tax audits. Although the judicial notification implied no guilt, Berlusconi found himself directly caught up in the debate over the apparent conflict of interest between being Prime Minister and holding onto control of Fininvest, a $7 billion-a-year conglomerate that dominates the Italian media. Belatedly...
...glimmer of history is strongest in Reardon's portrait of Waters, proprietor of the Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse. In the 60's, as part of Berkeley's student radical movement, she cooked for her fellow activists and published recipes in a leftist tabloid. She opened her restaurant in 1971. A $5 meal included main dish, wine, salad, and a showing of a Marcel Pagnol film...