Racism, History, Or Neither?

Columnist William Raspberry compares two recent books that examine the ghettoization of African Americans in the U.S.

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May 17, 2005, 5:00 AM PDT

Raspberry critiques "Black Rednecks and White Liberals" and "Is Bill Cosby Right? (Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?)". "The danger is that in our zeal to score points off one another, we'll forget what the game is about in the first place...One thing seems beyond dispute: Maybe we haven't laid racism to rest, but we have reached the point where what we do matters more than what is done to us. That's great, good news. Would somebody write a book about it?"

Thanks to David Gest

FULL STORY: Getting Beyond Racism

Sunday, May 15, 2005 in The Washington Post

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