What Was Once Dormant Is Now A

Hateful Material Travels The Globe. A Few Years Ago, Cnn, America's Der Sturmer, Ran A Story About Black Parents Being So Low Down That They Abandoned Their Children And The Children Had To Eat Rats. I Was At A University In Wisconsin At The Time And The Mother Of A Student From South Africa Called To See Whether The Story Was True. She Had Seen It All The Way Over There. The Story Was Untrue. The Children Lied. Cnn Never Corrected The Story.

Tea Party Members Go To Meetings On Medicare Scooters.

The Cultural Wars Of The Sixties Are Over. I've Reconciled With Those Who Were My Critics And Opponents Years Ago. I Was At Odds With Some Those Who Were Black Nationalists. Yet When Feminists Attempted To End My Career And Leave Me As Literary Road Kill, It Was The Black Nationalists Who Came To My Rescue.

I've Always Wondered Why European Politicians As A Group Seemed Brighter Than American Politicians As A Group. Maybe It's Becausemany American Politicians Have The Race Issue To Fall Back On. They Become Lazy, Suspicious Of Innovative Ideas, And As A Result American Institutions Atrophy.

I Get Most My Information About What's Happening In The United States From Reports And Studies, Which Are Often In Conflict With What You Read On The Editorial Pages, Or Handouts From Right Wing Institutions Like The American Enterprise Institute.