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"Say YES to Michigan!" the television commercials shout. "Say YES to white sandy beaches, lush green forests and deep blue lakes! Say YES to crystal rivers, rolling meadows, and exciting ski slopes!"
The bigger the job, the better. At one time, Soviet scientists seriously considered changing the course of Siberia's rivers. Economists have repeatedly tried to package the country's development into neat five-year -- if not 500- day -- plans. The strategy does achieve results: Russians built the marvelous city of...
Rivers, pastor of the Azusa Christian Community in Dorchester, opened by calling for a discussion of how Black intellectuals can move beyond "distant exhortation and example" to work for social change.
The discussion, which ran a half-hour over the scheduled 90 minutes, included several intense moments. West and Rivers both lost their microphones in one particularly emotive exchange on class divisions among Blacks.
hooks twice criticized the male panelists for engaging in "male homosocial bonding" and obscuring the voices of the two women on the panel. The second criticism elicited a heated response from Rivers. He accused hooks of sloganeering, calling her "Ms. Feminist--Upper Middle Class Feminist."