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WT Sharpe · 10-03-2010, 08:06 AM

.....There is an elemental tension between the existential necessity of black self-development and the moral requirements of a humanism which transcends race. One draws on ties of blood, shared history and common faith. The other endeavors to achieve an integration of the most wretched, despised, and feared of our fellows along with the rest of us into a single political community of mutual concern. One takes the social fact of race as a given, even celebrating it. The other aims to move beyond race altogether.
..........— Glenn Cartman Loury (1948 - ), American academic, author, Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Brown University. Quoted by William Raspberry, columnist for The Washington Post. "Who’s naive? Debate over racial pride draws lines," The Virginian-Pilot (Monday, May 5, 1997).

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WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	.....There is an elemental tension between the existential necessity of black self-development and the moral requirements of a humanism which transcends race. One draws on ties of blood, shared history and common faith. The other endeavors to achieve an integration of the most wretched, despised, and feared of our fellows along with the rest of us into a single political community of mutual concern. One takes the social fact of race as a given, even celebrating it. The other aims to move beyond race altogether. ..........— Glenn Cartman Loury (1948 - ), American academic, author, Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Brown University. Quoted by William Raspberry, columnist for The Washington Post. "Who’s naive? Debate over racial pride draws lines," The Virginian-Pilot (Monday, May 5, 1997).