--On Monday, September 17, 2001 11:09 AM -0400 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
Shelby Steele:
> This is the cultural capital that whites too often take for granted and
> rarely think of insisting on in the former victims of exclusion.
Can anybody explain what this is supposed to mean? How in the world can one "insist" on capital, cultural or otherwise, "in" someone?
>It is so easy to look at minority weakness and think of sweeping
programmatic
>solutions when a simple insistence on responsibility for one's own
development might
>serve far better. (After all, this is how Israel came to thrive after the
>Holocaust.)
Well, that and Palestinian land (i.e. primitive accumulation)...
Gary Ashwill