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...Externalist case, whose origins are noble enough, undergoes chemical change and becomes mere black racism and inchoate hatred--an intoxicating but evanescent luxury, like a cocaine high. Activism hardens into chronic, unappeasable grievance. As Horowitz says, "The phantom of institutional racism allows black leaders to avoid the encounter with real problems within their own communities, which are neither caused by whites nor soluble by the actions of whites, but which cry out for attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Indignant Sanity | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

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