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...surprising that this version of Lani Guinier drew attacks from every direction. Even many liberals were worried, thinking that Guinier didn't believe in the integrationist the vision of Martin Luther King. The editors of The New Republic argued for with-drawing her nomination, warning that Guinier "stands against everything that Clinton once promised in terms of a new, integrationist approach to civil rights." On this view, Lani Guinier was merely the flipside of the cynical racial politics of the Reagan era: but instead of distrusting blacks, she promoted the distrust of whites. Guinier, like many Republicans, believed...
West's interests range far beyond the epistemological conundrums that preoccupy many professional philosophers. Nor is he easy to typecast as a liberal or conservative, black nationalist or integrationist, since he endorses bits and pieces of all those ideas. Instead, this self-styled "intellectual freedom fighter" wields his learning as a polemical sword, slashing at barriers that prevent "ordinary people from living lives of dignity." Says West: "We need intellectual weaponry to find out why people, black and white, are catching the hell they're catching in America and around the world. If we don't have it, and historical...
...opinion, was to preserve the complexity of the man, and to allow us to watch him change--made all the more moving by Malcolm's deep personal integrity. We see this evolution clearly, and although it would be an error to argue that Malcolm X become a fully convinced integrationist, it is enough to show that he was open to people of other races and could live with ambiguity. It must have been difficult for Lee to sort through the many versions of Malcolm X and to find the courage to steer a clear course in the midst of criticisms...
...most students, their high school education on the Civil Rights movement revolves around the image of nonviolence, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and an integrationist dream. Little is taught regarding Malcolm X and the limited amount said usually portrays him as Dr. King's violent alternative who marginalized whites while contributing little to the movement's success as a whole...
Ironically, the student groups that flocked tosupport counter this month were actually opposedto the Foundation and its integrationist missionwhen it was first created in 1981. The Blackstudents Association organized a boycott of theFoundation...