Black Conservatives: Working for the Man Every Night and Day

Friday, July 23, 2004 at 02:28PM
TheSpook

Larry Elder  --  like Shelby Steele before him, and Walter Williams before that, and Ken Hamblin before that, and Thomas Sowell before him, and Clarence Thomas always  --  says the kinds of things that most white folks love to hear: essentially, that blacks are the source of their own problems in life. Black cultural pathology and bad behavior, according to these types, explain everything from black poverty rates to black incarceration rates. What about racism?, you may ask. What racism? To the Larry Elders of the world  --  and to the whites who have made them media stars entirely out of proportion to their scholarly credentials (or decided lack thereof)  --  racism is just an excuse black people use to explain away their own internal shortcomings. [more]

Article originally appeared on (http://brownwatch.com/).