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Interesting article from Harper's Mag..

by EdH May 2, 2006 5:36AM PDT

Yes, Harper's. Saw this on another site. It's from 1999. I wonder if any liberals died of apoplexy upon reading it.

The age of white guilt: and the disappearance of the black individual

Right after the sixties' civil-rights victories came what I believe to be the greatest miscalculation in black American history. Others had oppressed us, but this was to be the first ''fall'' to come by our own hand. We allowed ourselves to see a greater power in America's liability for our oppression than we saw in ourselves. Thus, we were faithless with ourselves just when we had given ourselves reason to have such faith. We couldn't have made a worse mistake. We have not been the same since.

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From today's Wall Street Journal

by hh May 2, 2006 12:31PM PDT

editorial page.
Not same issue, but an interesting article relating to the problems USA and Europe is having attributed to "White Guilt".

Very well written.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008318

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