More on race

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Jan 25 08:42:39 PST 1999


Max Sawicky wrote:


>>
>> I will have to quote Henry Louis Gates, Jr:
>>
>> "Farrakhan is a man of unhealthy fixations, but the reciprocal fixation on
>> Farrakhan that you find in the so called mainstream is a sign of our
>> impoverished political culture. Thirteen decades have passed since
>> Emancipation, and half of our black men between twenty four and
>> thirty five
>> are without full time employment. One black man graduates for every one
>> hundred who go to jail. ALmost of black children live in poverty. People
>> say that Farrakhan is now the leading voice of black rage in America. One
>> day, America will realize it got off easy."
>
>Gates badly needs to spend a little time looking
>into the Stat Abstract, or better the State of Working
>America.

What'd he get wrong?

Doug



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