[Stefan Stackhouse]

The great tragedy of African-Americans is the road not taken. Booker T Washington had the right formula. Had his prescription been taken seriously and widely implemented, then how very, very different things would be today!

[Arthur McGowan]

Originally, until about 1966, MLK, Jr., opposed the Great Society and the planned destruction of the Black Family through massive welfare addiction. He was silenced by threats of blackmail, since his compulsive adultery was known to all in the Welfare Addiction Movement.

[Ohioan]

The great tragedy of African-Americans is the road not taken. Booker T Washington had the right formula. Had his prescription been taken seriously and widely implemented, then how very, very different things would be today!

This is very true, although I wish that you had not used the newspeak term "African-American," which has insulting connotations, for American Negroes, who have been with us for almost four centuries.

While the main essay makes some very apt and able points, it makes far more concessions to the values of the Left, than I would. (See The Leftwing War On Social Cohesion, etc..)

A true application of the principles of America's greatest spokesmen would never embrace "multiculturalism." I do not know where the writer finds any suggestion that it would. Toleration of others is not the same as confusing a sense of National identity. Jefferson, for example, was a man of great tolerance. He was never confused, either about who he was or of whom his basic constituency consisted.

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