On May 9, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Charles Brown quotes someone:
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> Are you arguing that no black person can ever be an elitist?
> Barack Obama, nor Patrice Motsepe, nor any of the the upper middle
> class of Prince George's County? Or am I misreading you?
The words "elitism" and "elitist," meaningless in themselves, have long (always) been the watermark of every anti-intellectual racist demagogue in this benighted country. They should be banned from civilized discourse, or at least only referred to as "the e word," as distinctly worse than "the n word" which some people, at least, use subversively or even affectionately.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos