If Not Action, Then Straight Talk

From: Poverty & Race | Date: February 28, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

If Not Action, Then Straight Talk

by Herbert J. Gans

I agree that the President's Initative on Race should be devoted to action instead of talk, as proposed by most of the contributors to the November/December 1997 issue of Poverty & Race. But if the Initiative is going to be limited to talk, let it at least be straight talk.

I would begin by taking testimony from all the important black leaders -- including those invited to testify to the President's Initiative and to White House meetings and dinners -- about their chronic inability to get taxis. That session might then continue with a ...

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