> In Chicago, for instance, we've gotten a foretaste of the new breed
> of foundation-hatched black communitarian voices; one of them, a
> smooth Harvard lawyer with impeccable do-good credentials and
> vacuous-to-repressive neoliberal politics, has won a state senate
> seat on a base mainly in the liberal foundation and development
> worlds. His fundamentally bootstrap line was softened by a patina
> of the rhetoric of authentic community, talk about meeting in
> kitchens, small-scale solutions to social problems, and the
> predictable elevation of process over program -- the point where
> identity politics converges with old-fashioned middle-class reform
> in favoring form over substance.