Nobel laureate Saul Bellow takes the Tribune editorialists to task for failing to ”face truth of racial turmoil” in his letter printed in the Voice of the people. He spelled out the current climate that permits blatant anti- Semitic and antiwhite speechmaking by leaders of the black community, without a whimper of protest from the media.
A faint stench of the new racism-if you are not for a black you are a racist-comes from an unexpected corner. William Raspberry has tumbled from his aerie: He told candidate Bush that if he wanted to win, to take on Gen. Colin Powell, a black, as his running mate.
Raspberry, one-time strong advocate for black responsibility to its own community, has now joined the black-power-via-intimidation route.
The Chicago Tribune has knuckled under to the basic philosophy as noted by Mr. Bellow-put a lid on criticism of blacks.
