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Bill Anderson	Jun 17 2008, 07:54 AM
Posts: 2,587 Group: Tier1 Member #135 Joined: Apr 28, 2008	lec Jun 17 2008, 06:59 AM Great article Bill. Let me point out that Reharmonizer is trying again and mentions Perkinson in his latest blog entry. Not that you need any new targets or anything. http://reharmonized.an-earful.com/2008/06/professors-debating-badly/ In his review of KC’s book Until Proven Innocent (co-written by Stuart Taylor), Robert Perkinson does a fine job of separating KC’s constructive agenda from the thin-skinned, reactionary obsession with “reverse racism” and the rest of his culture-war baggage. I think the belated and marginalized good sense he credits the book with is even more marginal in DIW, and DIW has been the more influential and destructive of the two, since it shaped perceptions of the case for more than a year before the book came out. But Perkinson is worth quoting to get some perspective on KC’s priorities that, unlike Tyson’s, finds its mark: I'll take a pass on this one. The problem is that there is only one "permissible narrative" when something like this comes up: everything has to be framed in the terms of white racism towards blacks (and everyone else who falls into the "color" category). There can be no other framework of discussion. None. To try to work outside the permissible framework is seen as an act of racism itself. This framework has benefited a lot of people individually (it has made Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton very wealthy men) and it provides a large number of college faculty jobs and jobs for people in government. As to whether or not it actually benefits the country, or even blacks (and whites) in general is quite another matter. I leave the answer to you.


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