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Distorting the Dilemma |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / FEATURED BOOK: Dinesh D'Souza's The End of Racism |
| Author: Anne Wortham |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1996 |
| Size: 3,441 Words, 22,254 Characters |
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In the wake of the O.J. Simpson verdict and the Million Man March, black and white members of the chattering class have filled the airwaves and newsprint with laments that "we have never had a frank conversation about race in America" and exhortations that we have a "dialogue" about race. Of course, a few of us have been trying to get some frank and open discussion going for the last three decades, but to no avail. At every turn we have encountered self-censorship on the part of blacks and whites who conform to the taboo against defending their individual rights for fear of being labeled an Uncle Tom or racist.
Now comes conservative social critic Dinesh D'Souza, a brash young man of Asian Indian descent, who claims to enjoy "an element of ethnic immunity" on the subject of America's un...
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...gnet's analysis demonstrates that we cannot expect poor blacks to do what mainstream America has not done. We are all caught in a tangle of pathology, a web of economic bankruptcy, politicized social life, and cultural decline that leaves us ill equipped to meet the requirements of modern life. I suggest that it is more this state of affairs than white racism that obstructs black advancement.
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