[lbo-talk] Sowell on "black rednecks"

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Apr 27 11:34:41 PDT 2005


Carrol Cox wrote:


>It is
>extremely important for the left not to encourage such disregard for
>minimal intellectual standards.

What the hell, I haven't quoted this in over 18 months:


>...listen: I know Matthew Arnold is not
>
>far off: he's going to come roaring out of the woods, deeply
>offended by the briars and limber limbs, and mount up on a
>high stone chair and declaim to the woods: he's going to
>
>reinaugurate the distinctions and subordinations that make
>sense: he's going to turn the lofty lofty and broad and
>force the minuscule into its residence...
>
> -A.R. Ammons, Sphere: The Form of a Motion, section 30



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