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...leaves the impression that he has been blindsided by a lower-echelon Education official -- ironically, a neo-conservative who happens to be black -- on an issue on which he has taken a firm and progressive personal stand. Since his college days, Bush has unstintingly contributed to the United Negro College Fund...
...express dismay at a Washington bureaucrat's decision to bar federal aid to colleges and universities that offer scholarships restricted to minority students. The amount of money at risk is likely to be small, since need-based aid and minority scholarships established by private organizations like the United Negro College Fund remain legal. Colleges may also continue to take race into account in awarding money so long as it is not the only factor involved -- and financial need rather than race is often the dominant consideration in scholarship aid anyway...
Thus Crouch dismisses black filmmaker Spike Lee as a "middle-class would-be street Negro." He puts down Toni Morrison's moving novel Beloved as no more than an effort "to enter American slavery into the big-time martyr ratings contest." He castigates James Baldwin for undermining the moral basis of the civil rights movement with essays that "transformed white America into Big Daddy and the Negro movement into an obnoxious, pouting adolescent demanding the car keys...
Once, in 1961, Martin Luther King Jr. told some black college students about the Aristotelian bigot. This bigot, said King, constructed a syllogism: All men are made in the image of God; God, as everyone knows, is not a Negro; therefore, the Negro is not a man. The black soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts, and 180,000 other blacks who served in the Civil War, took that syllogism and burned it to ashes...
...line of thinking," he wrote recently, "is the rationale that blacks are not capable of making their own free choices." His comments reflect the reluctance of some black groups to attack tobacco companies, which have donated money to support events and causes ranging from jazz festivals to the United Negro College Fund...