Friday, August 8, 2008

Opinion: Could Obama's rise signal the end of black victimology?

Could it signal the end of Clintonian victimology, I wonder.

Could Obama's rise signal the end of black victimology? - Yahoo! News
[Victimology, in the view of black writer John McWhorter, is the theory that (1) African-Americans are continuing victims of racism and discrimination, and (2) their progress consequently depends chiefly on acts of repentant benevolence by whites – in the extreme case, reparations for slavery.]

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