Countering bigoted rightwing attack on Free Speech

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Sep 2 12:31:37 PDT 1999


Nathan Newman wrote:


>People may of caught the nasty David Horowitz column in Salon attacking the
>NAACP's lawsuits against the gun lobby where he argued that black leaders
>should "[abandon] the ludicrous claim that white America and firearms
>manufacturers are the cause of the problems afflicting African-Americans. It
>would mean taking responsibility for their own communities instead." See
>http://www.salon.com/news/col/horo/1999/08/16/naacp/index.html
>
>Jack White, a black TIME magazine columnist, wrote a rather restrained
>response where he dared to describe Horowitz's screed as being that of a
>"bigot." See
>http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,29787,00.html
>

[etc]

John Strausbaugh has a column, called "Don't Call Me N-word, Whitey," in this week's New York Press defending Horowitz <http://www.nypress.com/print.cfm?content_id=254&author_id=2>. His lead: "How far can a white guy go in criticizing black culture before Time declares him a racist? Salon's conservative columnist David Horowitz found out last week."

Just what is "black culture"?

Doug



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