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Submitted by William Lawson, Dec 5, 2006 23:40

I've just recently read McWhorters excellent "What's holding blacks back" essay, which is available here http://www.city-journal.org/html/11_1_whats_holding_blacks.html. He is obviously an objectivist, in fact the antithesis of just about everyone else who claims to have an insight into black problems. So refreshing to hear. Can you imagine if ghetto blacks had John McWhorter influencing their hearts and minds instead of Al Sharpton? Black America has been eroded and sabotaged by the left since the 60s - a combination of specious reasoning, naivety and the most destructive leftist disease of all - white guilt. What it needs more than anything is to become reacquainted with the language of reason and self-reliance.

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