Carl Rowan: Blackness

“I knew that the stories of the two murders would immediately grab the glands of millions of American white men, prejudicing them in ways they would never admit publicly.... (It) would enliven the insecurities of millions of white male psyches. The old college girl's chant, “Once you go black you never go back!””

Carl Rowan

surely would take on feverish new meaning.
Quoington Star article entitled "Has President Nixon Gone Crazy?", "The Coming Race War in America: A Wake-up Call" (1996)

Men , Way , Girl

“Clarence Thomas is the best only at his ability to bootlick for Ronald Reagan and George Bush… They didn't pick him because he was black. They picked him because he's a black conservative. And the thing that bothers me about his appointment -- if they had put David Duke on, I wouldn't scream as much because they would look at David Duke and reject him for what he is. If you gave Clarence Thomas a little flour on his face, you'd think you had David Duke talking.”

Carl Rowan

Inside Washington, July 7, 1991.
Quoington Star article entitled "Has President Nixon Gone Crazy?"

Thinking

“Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court.”

Carl Rowan

Carl Rowan, Inside Washington (March 20, 1993).
Quoington Star article entitled "Has President Nixon Gone Crazy?"

“A black friend of morbid wit said to me, ‘Doesn't O. J. know that we can f*** 'em now but we still can't kill 'em?’...”

Carl Rowan

Quoington Star article entitled "Has President Nixon Gone Crazy?", "The Coming Race War in America: A Wake-up Call" (1996)

“(If America abandons affirmative action, the country will take a giant step towards race war because there are) armies of raging blacks and furious Hispanics who would go ballistic over effectuation of the proposed campaigns to roll back the meager gains that nonwhites have made in America during a cruel century.”

Carl Rowan

Quoington Star article entitled "Has President Nixon Gone Crazy?", "The Coming Race War in America: A Wake-up Call" (1996)

War , Rage , Country

“(the effort to abolish affirmative action) is led mostly by conscienceless politicians, publicity-seeking bigots, whites with individual gripes who find it easy to make trouble in a litigious society, and a handful of blacks who harbor doubts about their own intellectual merits.”

Carl Rowan

Quoington Star article entitled "Has President Nixon Gone Crazy?", "The Coming Race War in America: A Wake-up Call" (1996)

Effort

“for every Farrakhan who riles and poisons black America, there are twenty white bigots who seek to take us into organized murder and mayhem.”

Carl Rowan

Quoington Star article entitled "Has President Nixon Gone Crazy?", "The Coming Race War in America: A Wake-up Call" (1996)