Mugged (55 page)
39
. John McWhorter, “Racism in Retreat,”
New York Sun
, June 5, 2008.
40
. John Heilemann and Mark Halperin,
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
(Harper, 2010) at 36.
41
.
“The Chris Matthews Show
,” (syndicated) March 7, 2010.
42
. See OccupyWallStreet.org (“Occupy Wall Street is a people-powered movement that began on September 17, 2011, in Liberty Square in Manhattan’s Financial District”); Jillian Dunham, #OccupyWallSt Roundup, Day 59, November 14, 2011; Just Like the Tea Party: A List of Occupy Mayhem Sorted by Type, November 16, 2011, Verum Serum, available at http://www.verumserum.com/?p=33490.
43
. James Bennet, “Clinton, at Meeting on Race, Struggles to Sharpen Debate,”
New York Times
, December 4, 1997.
44
. Eric Foner,
The Story of American Freedom
(W.W. Norton and Company, 1999) at 193 (“Under Roosevelt’s guidance [in 1932], the Democratic Party was transformed
from a bastion of localism and states’ rights into a broad coalition of farmers, industrial workers, the reform-minded urban middle class, liberal intellectuals,
and, somewhat incongruously, the white-supremacist South, all committed to federal intervention…
) (emphasis added)
CHAPTER 17: WHITE GUILT KILLS
1
. Fred Siegel, “Ground Zero for Big Government,”
The American Enterprise
, June 1, 2002.
2
. As usual, it was white liberals who drove a truck through this hole. A Lindsay aide hired “Yippie” leader Abbie Hoffman as a “community liaison” and Hoffman responded “by writing giant ‘F—k You’s’ on the walls of Grand Central Station.” Fred Siegel, “Ground Zero for Big Government,”
The American Enterprise,
June 1, 2002.
3
. Jurgensen at xviii.
4
. E. J. McMahon and Fred Siegel, “Gotham’s Fiscal Crisis: Lessons Unlearned,”
Public Interest,
January 1, 2005.
5
. See, e.g., Ralph Blumenthal, Black Youth Is Killed by Whites; Brooklyn Attack Is Called Racial, the
New York Times
, August 25, 1989.
6
. Don Kowet, A close-up of race issue as media spectacle, the
Washington Times
, May 15, 1990 (reviewing “Seven Days in Bensonhurst,” PBS’s
Frontline).
7
. Elizabeth Kolbert, “Youth’s Funeral Focuses on Racial Divisions,” the
New York Times
, August 31, 1989.
8
. Ibid.
9
. Walter Goodman, “Review/Television: Examining the Bensonhurst Killing,” the
New York Times
, May 15, 1990.
10
. Elizabeth Kolbert, Youth’s Funeral Focuses on Racial Divisions, August 31, 1989.
11
. M. A. Farber, “In Son’s Slaying, a Father Finds His Mission,” the
New York Times
, September 28, 1989.
12
. Celestine Bohlen, “Dinkins Stresses His Appeal for Harmony,” the
New York Times
, September 7, 1989.
13
. Ken Auletta, “Mayoral Flight’s Ready for Takeoff and I’m Getting on with Dinkins,” the
New York Daily News
, October 29, 1989 (quoted in Jared Taylor,
Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America
(Carroll & Graf Publishers 1992) at 265.
14
. Fred Siegel,
The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York and the Genius of American Life
(Encounter Books 2006) at 74.
15
. Ibid.
16
. Michael Tomasky, “The Day Everything Changed;”
New York Magazine
, October 6, 2008.
17
. “Clinton Hits a Nerve on Race,” the
New York Times
, September 30, 1993.
18
. Margaret Wente, Interview: Shelby Steele, Harvard Academic And Black Conservative,
Globe and Mail
(Canada), October 20, 2007. (“Q: ‘Is there any prominent black figure who doesn’t wear the mask?’…Steele: ‘Clarence Thomas. He wears no mask at all. He’s not a bargainer or a challenger. He’s his own man. He has deep and profound convictions. You can take them or leave them, but he is unwavering. He is a rather heroic figure—the freest black man in America.’”)
19
.
“The Crisis of Black Political Succession,”
Washington Informer,
May 8, 2002.
20
. Sean Gregory, Why Cory Booker Likes Being Mayor of Newark, July 27, 2009, available at http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1910983,00.html #ixzz20RI8sz6K.
21
. Ibid.
22
. Glenn Townes, “Booker to deliver State of the City address,”
New York Amsterdam News
, March 1, 2012.
23
. See, e.g., Douglas Martin, “Patrick Chavis, 50, Affirmative Action Figure,” the
New York Times
, August 15, 2002; Abraham H. Miller, “Clinton’s Silenced Dialogue on Race,”
World and I,
June 1, 1998.
24
. This is a paraphrase of Peter Brimelow’s remark on the first page of his book
Alien Nation
: “There is a sense in which current immigration policy is Adolf Hitler’s posthumous revenge on America.” Peter Brimelow,
Alien Nation: Common Sense About America’s Immigration Disaster
(Harper Perennial 1996) at xvii, available at http://www23.us.archive.org/stream/Alien_Nation/alien-nation-peter-brimelow_djvu.txt.
A
Abortion, as constitutional right, 151–52, 154
Abrams, Robert, 62
Abu-Jamal, Mumia, 89–90, 99
Abyssinian Baptist Church (Harlem), 144–45
Accuracy in Media, 124
Ackerman, Spencer, 234–35
Adams, Eric, 143
Adams, James Luther, 75
Adams, John, 189
Affirmative action
Bakke decision, 142, 260
Bill Clinton on, 251
Clarence Thomas on, 104
and Republicans, 173
Africa, John, and MOVE, 88–90
Africa, Ramona, 90
African Americans
civil rights granted.
See
Civil rights laws; Racial desegregation;
specific laws
in Civil War, 195–97
colonial era arrival, 248
and criminal behavior.
See
Crimes by blacks; Criminal justice system
culture, Southern roots of, 7–10
and Democratic policies.
See
Democrats; Liberals
as Democratic voters, 2, 9–10, 20–21, 107–8
dialect, origin of, 9
discrimination and racism.
See
Racial discrimination; Racism against blacks
family, demise of, 11–14
gay marriage, opposition to, 12, 76
instability, creation of, 10–14, 107–8
justice for criminals, call for, 97–99, 101–4
marriage rate decline, 11–12
as Obama voters (2008), 76
OJ verdict, impact on, 15–16, 56, 127–28, 137–46
post-Civil War legislators, 175
post-slavery strengths of, 11, 14, 107–8
in presidential campaigns, 139–40
racial unrest.
See
Race riots; Racial turmoil
racism of.
See
Racism against whites
and Republican policies.
See
Republicans
slave experience and present, 8, 11, 12, 14, 17, 107, 229–30
three-fifths clause, 204
voter ID laws, 247–48
and welfare state, 10–14, 107–8, 122
Agnew, Spiro, 4, 98, 172–73
Aid to Families with Dependent Children, 11
Ailes, Roger, 113
Alaniz, Roberto, 132
Albanian Bad Boys, 66
Allen, Barry, 100–101, 126
Allen, Bryant, 117
Allison, Anne, 159
Alter, Jonathan, 199, 238–39
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Democratic party connection, 19
on Joyce Brown case, 12
Amirault, Gerald, 189
Andre, Rudy, 78–79
Anti-Semitism
and Al Sharpton, 64–65
and Jeremiah Wright, 92
Armstrong, Louis, 107
Assassination
of Bush, references to, 217–18
non-racially motivated attempts, 218–19
of Obama, fear of, 207–17, 219–22
Audacity of Hope, The
(Obama), 91
Auletta, Ken, 258
Axelrod, David, 17, 228
Ayres, Bill, 238–39
B
Bailey, Dorothy, 118
Bailey, F. Lee, 128, 130
Baker, Howard, 171–72
Bakke, Allan, 142, 260
Baldwin, Alec, 100
Baltimore, race riots, 98–99
Barbieri, Paula, 137
Barkley, Charles, 231
Barnes, Cliff, 190–92
Barnes, Fred, 235
Barry, Marion, 42–44
Bazelon, David, 94
Beame, Abe, 256
Beatty, Jack, 51
Beck, Glenn, 245, 249
Beckel, Bob, 5, 252
Bell, Kathleen, 129
Bennett, Bill, 141
Berns, Walter F., 101
Bernstein, Carl, 6
Biden, Joe, 154, 250
Black, Hugo, in Ku Klux Klan, 172, 176, 178, 183
Black Armed Guards, 20
Black church
Jeremiah Wright, 29–230, 91–92
as Jim Jones model, 84
liberal approval of, 75–77
Southern traditions in, 8–9
Black cults
MOVE and John Africa, 88–90
Nation of Islam, 78–83
Peoples Temple, 83–88
Black Liberation Army, 255–56
Blackmun, Harry A., 152
Black Muslims.
See
Nation of Islam
Black Panthers, 100
Black rage insanity defense, 74
Black Rednecks and White Liberals
(Sowell), 7–9
Blackwell, Ken, 145
Blum, Dominic, 51
Bob Jones University
George W. Bush speech at, 193
interracial dating ban, 193
Booker, Cory, 260
Borjas, George, 150
Bork, Robert, 178
Bozell, Brent, 234
Bradley, Bill, 139–40
Branch Davidians, 90
Bratton, William, 143
Braun, Carol Moseley, 140
Brawley, Tawana
defamation suit against, 141–42
rape hoax, 40, 62–63, 131, 156
Breitbart, Andrew, 243
Brennan, William, 94, 97
Breslin, Jimmy, 51, 100
Brewer, Contessa, 112, 246
Brimelow, Peter, 192
Brinkley, David, 141
Briseno, Theodore, 116
Britt, Maurice, 171
Brokaw, Tom, 141
Brooke, Edward, 203–4
Brookhiser, Richard, 158
Brown, Carlton, 132
Brown, Denise, 135
Brown, Edmund, Jr., 84
Brown, Janice Rogers, 183, 259–60
Brown, Jerry, 84
Brown, Joyce, 12
Brown, Michael, 196
Brown, Rap, 99
Brown, Scott, 249–50
Brown, Willie, 84, 85
Brownmiller, Susan, 162
Brown v. Board of Education
Democratic resistance, 2–3, 170–71, 180–81
Republican enforcement of, 2–5, 4–5, 180
Bruce, Blanche, 203
Brunn, James von, 215–16
Brzonkala, Christy, 155–56
Bumpurs, Eleanor, 22–23
Bureau of Public Assistance, 11
Burke, Edmund, 133
Burton, Bill, 212
Burton, John, 84
Burton, Phillip, 84
Bush, George H. W.
restrictive covenant accusation, 192
Southern vote for, 170, 270
as WASP, 158
Willie Horton ad, 189–92
Bush, George W.
assassination, references to, 217–18
Bob Jones University speech, 193
and hate crime legislation, 202, 204
on Rodney King verdict, 118
as WASP, 158
Butts, Calvin, 144–45
Byrd, Harry, 177
Byrd, James, 202, 204
Byrd, Robert, in Ku Klux Klan, 174, 178
Byrne, David, 100
C
Cabey, Darrell, 100–101, 103
Cain, Herman, 219, 252, 259
Califano, Joseph, 85
Calloway, Bo, 172
Campbell, Barbara, 45, 56
Campbell, Naomi, 100
Cannon, Lou, 118
Canty, Troy, 100
Cardillo, Phil, 78–82
Carlin, George, 130
Carmichael, Stokely, 99
Caro, Robert, 174
Carter, Jimmy
campaign kickoff and KKK, 188
and Peoples Temple, 83–84, 86
on Republican racism, 187, 249
Southern vote for, 168, 170, 268–69
Carter, Rosalynn, 83–85
Cartmell, Suzanne Jones, 87
Carver, George Washington, 107
Cato, Gavin, 28
Center for American Progress, 245
Center for Individual Rights, 156
Central Park jogger, 26, 142
Chafe, William, 159
Chambers, Robert, 47–48, 50
Chambers, Stan, 123
Chaney, James, 186, 187
Chavis, Patrick, 260
Chertoff, Michael, 210
Chomsky, Noam, 100, 208
Christian, Cannon, 55–56
Christian, evangelical, 75, 88
Christie, Ron, 145
Churchill, Ward, 91
Circle of Six
(Jurgensen), 80
Cirincione, Joseph, 252
Civil rights, 147–64
abortion rights, 152, 154
and blacks.
See
Civil rights laws;
specific laws
Democratic definition of, 149–51
equal protection clause, 150, 154
gay marriage, 149–50
women versus blacks, 154–57
Civil Rights Act of 1866, 179
Civil Rights Act of 1957, 171, 174, 180
Civil Rights Act of 1960, 180
Civil Rights Act of 1964, 3, 147, 151, 165–66, 170, 180
Civil Rights Act of 1965, 181
Civil Rights Commission, 3
Civil rights laws
Democrats against, 2–3, 171, 174, 179–81
Republican support, 2–5, 20, 166, 171–73, 179–81
Civil War
African Americans in, 195–97
black legislators after, 175
Confederate flag as symbol, 193–97
political party affiliations, 174, 193
Clark, Ramsey, 94, 97
Clay, Lucius, 196
Cleaver, Emmanuel, 243
Clinton, Bill
on affirmative action, 251
Dinkins endorsement by, 259