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Tomorrow's Master Race?


Article # : 12750 

Section : BOOK WORLD
Issue Date : 3 / 1987  1,889 Words
Author : Richard Grenier
Richard Grenier's latest book is Capturing the Culture.

       Are you an admirer of Muammar Quaddafi? Are you looking forward to a world where Africans (from Africa) will be the new Brahmins while Westerners are the new Untouchables? Where the roles of privilege will be unabashedly reversed? Where Africans, taking their lead from OPEC at its height and Qaddafi (whose terrorist bombs in airports and discotheques are perfectly reasonable) will have the West over a barrel economically? Where they will be able to ground Western military and civilian aircraft by withholding precious minerals? Will squeeze us, sweat us, get back at the West for what it has done to them, "from slavery straight to multinational corporations?" Where South Africa will be a black-ruled state with "convincing nuclear credentials"? (in plain language: nuclear weapons)?
       
        Are you a supporter of Jesse Jackson and his Marxist-Leninist friends? Do you, like all fair-minded people, share their impartial eagerness to "run Reagan out of Washington, and it won't be long!" (I quote Rev. Jackson.) Do you believe that a person of even partly African ancestry can live in America "for a thousand years" without becoming an American? In short, are you a vengeful black racist? Perhaps a masochistic white flagellant?
       
        Book of Your Dreams
       
        If so, look no further. The book of your dreams has been written. It is a companion "teaching tool" to a nine-part television series called The Africans, which aired recently on the Public Broadcasting Service. Despite contemptuous descriptions in reviews as a "pretentious fraud" (The New York Times), it is now being gobbled up for "educational" purposes by university black studies departments throughout the ... (1995 of 11394 Characters)
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