Word: nihilisme
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With the best stories already told, the urban poets of the 1990s became fake black mafiosi with legendary gangster surnames, telling fantasy crime tales that were ridiculous to anyone familiar with real ghetto street crime. The socially conscious lament began to disappear with Dr. Dre’s 1992 magnum...
But Summers rejected what he called “relativistic nihilism, in which all positions are equally legitimate, all positions must be respected and compromise must be entered into, no matter what the starting point or reasonableness of the two parties. It seems to me that Israel is right, its...
According to a recent Gallup poll, only 34 percent of blacks express confidence in the police and 16 percent in the local courts. Coupled with the fact that one in seven black men is barred from voting because of penal disenfranchisement and that criminal conviction can make one ineligible for...
The information held by some of these detainees is no doubt valuable to the war effort against global terrorism. But extracting this information should not come at the cost of undercutting America’s legitimacy in fighting this war. In the eyes of many Americans, the War on Terror...
West believes that such questioning will empower humans to overcome the oppressive status quo they see in society. He says that blacks have historically been forced to do this in the face of continual oppression, but that today all Americans have succumbed to an insidious nihilism that has allowed them...