Word: lerner
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...most inane and hypocritical aspects of Jews and Blacks do not lie in the authors' resistance to such a quasi-conservative agenda, but their denial that it is even morally legitimate. Lerner criticizes the great Jewish defection from liberalism as fundamentally anti-Jewish, attempting to restrict his people's political freedom. He writes: "It is only if Jews can stay connected to our task as witnesses to God's presence and hence as witnesses to the possibility of transformation from the ethos of selfishness to the ethos of caring (what I call a 'Politics of Meaning') that retaining...
West goes even further than Lerner's hollow warnings of Jewish destruction. He threatens a defensive war against an oncoming American holocaust facing Blacks. "If we don't come up with a multiracial, progressive strategy, then we are simply headed toward Armageddon," he says. "I mean race war...That's quite imaginable in this society...
...setting out to solve a paramount contemporary American conflict, Lerner and West take on a heavy burden. Unfortunately, both attack the problem with a hostile pessimism through which they call for socialist revolution. The workers of the world might be more equal under a socialist regime, but that does not imply material comfort and therefore it certainly fails to correspond with racial harmony...
...least Michael Lerner and Cornel West are frank in their discussions. The politicians at the Kennedy School seemed eager to head off potentially divisive questions, including ones mentioning Nation of Islam head Louis Farrakhan. They focused on the shared history of Blacks and Jews as minorities who have experienced extreme prejudice. How far can these shared experiences be taken...
...Like Lerner and West, the representatives believed that the Black-Jewish alliance of the 60's can transcend time and political shifts. In the 60's, it was the Blacks who were balking (and rightly so) about civil rights to a government that was not particularly concerned. But over the last 30 years much has changed. One significant metamorphosis is that we now have a federal government openly and actively pursuing policies designed to benefit Blacks--and a largely white public that rejects such an agenda...