> [here's what Adolph Reed writes in reaction to Michael Pollak's claim
> that he was exaggerating.]
>
> I'm basing it partly on the speech he gave in Houston a few months
> ago, where he went on -- to a black audience -- about how "we" need
> to stop feeding our kids Popeye's chicken for breakfast, be better
> parents, etc etc. He's made less flamboyant versions of that move
> repeatedly, including in his 2004 Dem Convention speech. I suspect
> the defensive response is something like well it's true that some
> people do that, but I think that's at best a bullshit, Kool-Aid
> junkie's rationale or worse evidence of embrace of the same kind of
> class-driven behavioralist narrative about poverty, that nowadays
> often enough comes dressed up as race-conscious community "uplift."
well, what he says about getting a college education is not that a college education is what people deserve b/c they exist in a society where it's become the minimum for a decent job -- and even then plenty of people don't get a good paycheck, even with a degree.
what he says is, 'you can get a college education if you put out first. prove you deserve it, then we'll give it to you."
i think clinton says pretty much the same. but what is fascinating, to me, is that he emphasizes the bit about having topay for it first.
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