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...eyes remain open to beauty as well as squalor. The sensuous Alexandria of old, he notes, was a city "so purple, with Nubian slaves, child brothels, and cabals and nearly always someone in the Casbah wailing with meningitis." One can almost forgive the racist undercurrents of a writer who can pen a sentence like that...
Then there are those who try to make Farrakhan real, to see him calmly with eyes open. They say that while Farrakhan has undoubtedly gained stature from his successful organization of the Washington march, he is not nearly as threatening as his rhetoric makes him seem. "I abhor his racist and bigoted statements," says Laura Washington, the black editor and publisher of the Chicago Reporter, a newsletter on race relations. "They are counterproductive and unfair. But it's important for whites not to put too much stock in what he says." Loury says Farrakhan is "the leader of a black...
...black people wish to end it, but black people, seeing that racism can translate into oppression, think they must fight fire with fire. As Cornel West says, it is natural for a black person to counter racism with racism. And white people, seeing that black people are also racist, refrain from purging their own attitudes of racist thoughts. Thus neither side of the color line benefits and both sides end up separating form each other...
...Though slavery ended 130 years ago, and legal segregation and Jim Crow laws ended 30 years ago, the ill-will created by these institutions still exists, and expands any time a black person is treated unfairly by a white person. The problem is that the people who committed these racist atrocities have long since died and thus there is not outlet for the black community's intense anger...
Black people may point to prejudices harbored by white people over the past 400 years and say, "Do you remember the 1950s," or the years of slavery? And I would respond by saying, "Do you know today?" For anyone who thinks that we still are a racist society, I will gladly concede that much to you, but only in light of the fact that racism merely pervades the outer fringes of American society, not its core...