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the majority instead. They tell us school teachers and
unemployed mothers are "special interests". They tell us civil
rights remedies produce civil wrongs.

They tell us America is color blind, but a recent national
survey tells us that the majority of whites believe Blacks and
Hispanics prefer welfare to work, are lazier than whites, and are
more prone to violence, less intelligent, and less patriotic.

These new obstructionists reject the intergenerational
effects of racism as a cause of disadvantage; discrimination is
dead, they say, and cannot be at fault, but blacks will suffer
disadvantage as long as they exhibit discrimination's badges.

When the topic is Black unemployment rates - twice those for
whites - past and present bias plays no role. But when the
subject is welfare burdens or other so called "pathologies,"
these neo-segs never tire of listing the cumulative effects of
our racist past.

Yesterday's movement has been criticized - in the perfect
hindsight of today - for winning gains for middle class blacks
alone, but middle class blacks in Montgomery did not ride the
city's busses, and college professors and bankers in Greensboro
did not eat their lunch at the five and ten.

Someone needs to disabuse the modern world of the notion
that the beneficiaries of race-centered affirmative action are
somehow "profiting" from it, as if the movement's goals were an
investment shared by a greedy few - a subtribe of ebony Ivan
Boeskys trading up life's ladder. There is no 'profit' in
receiving right treatment. Receiving rights others already enjoy