Sublime

Whites tended to believe, and to say, that Sharpton was “using” the racial issue—which, in the sense that all political action is based on “using” one issue or another, he clearly was.

Young Puerto Ricans didn’t actually commit many crimes in the postwar period. The evidence suggests that they misbehaved less than other New Yorkers. But as Puerto Ricans poured in from the island, the tabloid press trumpeted sensational tales of their malfeasance. Journalists who had had conspicuously little to say about the anticolonial uprising

Yet writing in the 1963 foreword—before the Immigration Act—Baltzell was already pointing out that “[s]ince [Teddy] Roosevelt’s day, America has become, at all levels of society, the most ethnically and racially heterogeneous nation on earth.”4

policies.

The people who think of themselves as White have the choice of becoming human or irrelevant. Or—as they are, indeed, already, in all but actual fact: obsolete. For, if trouble don’t last always, as the Preacher tells us, neither does Power, and it is on the fact or the hope or the myth of Power that that identity which calls itself White has always

“Lefkowitz”?) Louis Goldstein declared his name “un-American, uneuphonius, and an economic handicap”—a petition that was rejected by the judge, whose name was also Louis Goldstein. (Those who beat the odds in an unfair system, of course, are the ones most invested in claiming the system is fair; if they didn’t need a workaround, there must not be

First, she squarely took on the “racism” taboo that disarms conservatives so effectively to this very day: “Democrats denounce and abuse white people, and Republicans act embarrassed about having whites vote for them. Why are white votes bad?9 […] Rule of thumb, Republicans: If you aren’t being called ‘racist’ by the New York Times, you’re losing.