New article by Bill White abstract (taken from PDF):
THURGOOD MARSHALL is hailed as a role model for the Black community. But is he really as great as the establishment would have you think? Is he just another phony Black hero foisted on the colored community like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton? Are Blacks being done a disservice by White liberals when they continue to offer up this kind of Black icon when so many other Blacks are worthy of praise—but whose histories are ignored or suppressed? In 2000, Juan Williams, a Black Panamanian-born American journalist and political analyst for Fox News Channel and a writer for half a dozen leading mainstream newspapers,wrote a book called Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary. Although the book was meant as a tribute to the first Black American to serve on the Supreme Court, a careful reading of the book challenges Marshall’s “exemplary” legacy.
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