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Re: Re: more on reparations



> At 05:31 PM 08/25/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> >Shelby Steele is the best-known black opponent of all reparations.
> >Labelled a 'neo-conservative', Steele said reparations fall into
line
> >behind the fight for welfare programmes that 'only subsidised black
> >intertia'. 'The demand for reparations,' he said, 'is yet another
> >demand for white responsibility, when today's problem is a failure
of
> >black responsibility.'
>
> this fellow also implies that "welfare" (as we knew it) was just for
black
> people. What crap!
>
> Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine


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Author Alston, Lee J., 1951-
Title Southern paternalism and the American welfare state : economics,
politics, and institutions in the South, 1865-1965 / Lee J. Alston,
Joseph P. Ferrie
Pub info Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999
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