Deceivers as Civil Rights Crusaders

Profiteering race peddlers keep the dream alive.

False dreams and bogus schemes
[Links to Biweekly Commentaries]

The Lawsuit Gravy Train, by Elizabeth Wright
[Class-action lawsuits for so-called discriminatory practices are now a fixture in black culture.]

Abuse of Power, by Elizabeth Wright
[How a quasi-governmental organization like the NAACP can wreak havoc when white people's property is at stake]

Can We Overcome Jesse Jackson?, by Elizabeth Wright
[The prospect of social turmoil underlies the successful wheeling and dealing of black elites]

Don't Distract Us From the Main Task of Hustling Whitey, by Thomas Sowell
[Although race realities have changed dramatically in this country, race hustlers continue to view any black achievement as "elitism" to be downplayed.]

The "Problem Profiteers"
[Review of Robert Woodson’s book, The Triumphs of Joseph. He describes the conflict between careerist, professional blacks whose livelihoods are built on schemes to maintain social disadvantage and the blacks who fight them, in attempts to bring real alternatives to the poor.]

Voodoo Dolls and Oratory
[Was the "doll theory" on which the case of Brown vs. Board of Education was founded just another con job?]

Step Down Off the Slave Auction Block
[Shahrazad Ali's terse reflections on blacks who are winning a new kind of lottery by sueing white-owned corporations.]