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With the Simpson verdict and with the country about to turn the autumn corner into the 1996 presidential election, I keep returning to the sentiment that Americans could find, if they were looking, in the old hymn "Lord, plant my feet on higher ground." King was right: The content of one's character, not the color of one's skin, is what matters. Stop defining people by color, by groups (blacks, whites, Asians, gays). Stop practicing the politics of tribal identity. But you would have to rescind a universe of political correctness and poisonous identity politics in order to restore...
...militias nationwide and even some of their critics soon began expressing doubts about the note. "A setup," said Dean Compton, a Northern California paramilitary leader and founder of the National Alliance of Christian Militia, echoing a common sentiment. "We went through every computer data base we had, and there's no militia in the country that has ever heard of the name." At least two aspects of the note seem suspect: most extremists reserve the term Gestapo for the government, and few of them trust the feds enough to suggest that they police themselves. Joel Breshin, head of the Arizona...
There are plenty of other blacks who share this sentiment, but many are reluctant to voice it for fear of being branded race traitors. Their problem with Farrakhan, like mine, is not only his anti-Semitism but also his habit of selling wolf tickets--archaic black slang for making loud but empty threats. For all his cries about the need for blacks to develop economic independence, for instance, the Nation of Islam's enterprises are less than impressive: small businesses such as restaurants, the Final Call newspaper and security-guard companies that contract with public housing projects and similar institutions...
...Bettmann sold his business to a small publishing firm and retired to Florida. For him, the sale was an occasion of satisfaction without sentiment."I hate nostalgia," he said, "but I've made a hell of a living from it." So have his successors, who have continued to make the Bettmann credit line ubiquitous in print. Now a few taps on the computer keyboard will bring it to the screen. That prospect pleases the 92-year-old Bettmann, who pronounced himself delighted "to have seen my original acorn nourished and cultivated into a formidable digitized...
...resentful white attitude has resulted in attacks on affirmative action and government assistance, which, African Americans contend, rather than disabling black families by creating excessive dependencies has been inadequate to their needs. These antipodal positions have been hardened by an intellectual debate between those who state that antiblack sentiment has never been more harsh and those who claim that racism is dead...