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...standards. Columnists, too, are guilty of the sin of coherence--they attempt to make meaning of the world on a daily basis. They tell you why Bill Clinton sent a brooch to Monica Lewinsky, what possessed the editors at Boston Magazine to call Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. "Head Negro in Charge," and how a Harvard economist was lured to Columbia with $300,000. Such ex post facto explanations serve to enhance perceptions of coherence. But if coherence is such a grand objective to pursue, why does it take so much damn work...
...human societies with "Stone Age tribes" at one end and Euro-American high culture at the other. This is the same worldview that contrasts the confused, pathologically bilingual, overly emotional Latino to the modern, rational Anglo. It is the same worldview that sends pseudo-scientists racing around measuring Negro skulls. Never mind that we are all living at the same point in time and that all human beings and human cultures are equally deserving of respect...
When I stood in that doorway, looking out at the rolling Atlantic, and realized that some despairing, shackled ancestor of mine might have passed that way...well, in the words of a great Negro spiritual, "my dungeon shook" and I was moved beyond my power to describe it. After Hillary and Chelsea Clinton visited Goree Island last year, the First Lady declared it "one of the most heartbreaking monuments anywhere in the world." The Door of No Return, she said, "represents nothing less than the depths of human depravity...
Seven years after the Brown school- desegregation decision, six years after the Montgomery bus boycott, the Congress of Racial Equality had dispatched a few buses loaded with Freedom Riders--young Negro civil rights workers and a few whites--to challenge segregation laws in various public facilities in the Deep South. The bus driver yelled to the Anniston crowd, "Well, boys, here they are. I brought you some niggers and nigger-lovers...
PRESENTING NEGRO SCENES DRAWN UPON...