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Black conservative Keyes, who hosts a radio talk show in Baltimore, here presents a broad-brush essay on the history and state of black America. He offers some overblown rhetoric-comparing the "covert totalitarianism" of the "liberal welfare state" to that of the Soviet Union-as well as suspect analysis, praising Martin Luther King Jr.'s statesmanship but ignoring his increased concern about economic inequality. But he does make worthy points: contra the notorious Moynihan report, black families long embraced family values; the black church has always fostered a black identity with "moral and religious convictions"; Jesse Jackson jettisoned mainstream black values such as opposition to abortion as he gained prominence. Keyes blames Great Society liberalism for hitching black leaders to a federal tether while vitiating local power bases. This leads to his lightly sketched solution: respect local black institutions and values via "community empowerment," or local self-government that allows neighborhood taxation, law enforcement, welfare programs and education.
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Keyes received media attention during his campaigns for the U.S. Senate on the Republican ticket and, since losing his contests, has become a radio commentator and talk-show host. In this essay on the causes of the plight of urban blacks, Keyes, an intense rhetorician, should irritate all the apologists for, and would-be expanders of, the welfare state. He begins with an exegesis on how enslaved Africans survived bondage, seeing in the historical development of the black family and Christian church sources for rejuvenation: they continue to be black America's strengths. Keyes then attacks the "betrayal" of "the special moral identity of black Americans" by the established civil rights groups, which habitually demand that the feds materially succor the community, a reflex that Keyes believes mires blacks in "perpetual supplication." In his prescription, empowerment comes from the self and the church and education, not subsidy programs. Though the liberal targets of Keyesian morals will probably dismiss this essay, the fact that it revolves around the nature of black identity and its antecedents in the long night of slavery--a question as central as anything to getting out of the crisis--merits support. Gilbert Taylor
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Black conservative Keyes, who hosts a radio talk show in Baltimore, here presents a broad-brush essay on the history and state of black America. He offers some overblown rhetoric-comparing the "covert totalitarianism" of the "liberal welfare state" to that of the Soviet Union-as well as suspect analysis, praising Martin Luther King Jr.'s statesmanship but ignoring his increased concern about economic inequality. But he does make worthy points: contra the notorious Moynihan report, black families long embraced family values; the black church has always fostered a black identity with "moral and religious convictions"; Jesse Jackson jettisoned mainstream black values such as opposition to abortion as he gained prominence. Keyes blames Great Society liberalism for hitching black leaders to a federal tether while vitiating local power bases. This leads to his lightly sketched solution: respect local black institutions and values via "community empowerment," or local self-government that allows neighborhood taxation, law enforcement, welfare programs and education.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Keyes received media attention during his campaigns for the U.S. Senate on the Republican ticket and, since losing his contests, has become a radio commentator and talk-show host. In this essay on the causes of the plight of urban blacks, Keyes, an intense rhetorician, should irritate all the apologists for, and would-be expanders of, the welfare state. He begins with an exegesis on how enslaved Africans survived bondage, seeing in the historical development of the black family and Christian church sources for rejuvenation: they continue to be black America's strengths. Keyes then attacks the "betrayal" of "the special moral identity of black Americans" by the established civil rights groups, which habitually demand that the feds materially succor the community, a reflex that Keyes believes mires blacks in "perpetual supplication." In his prescription, empowerment comes from the self and the church and education, not subsidy programs. Though the liberal targets of Keyesian morals will probably dismiss this essay, the fact that it revolves around the nature of black identity and its antecedents in the long night of slavery--a question as central as anything to getting out of the crisis--merits support. Gilbert Taylor
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