{"id":5705,"date":"2002-02-21T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2002-02-21T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2002\/02\/5705\/"},"modified":"2002-02-21T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2002-02-21T17:23:00","slug":"5705","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2002\/02\/5705.html","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/poems\/poems.cfm?prmID=1442\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">LIFT EV\u2019RY VOICE AND SING<\/a><\/b>: Here are several links with, as promised, cheerier stuff about black America. They go from most to least depressing. All are from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">City Journal<\/a>\u2026 because I\u2019m lazy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/html\/11_1_whats_holding_blacks.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cWhat\u2019s Holding Blacks Back?\u201d<\/a>, by John McWhorter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/html\/6_4_urbanities-washingtons_los.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cWashington\u2019s Lost Black Aristocracy,\u201d <\/a>by Tucker Carlson.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/html\/11_3_toward_a_usable.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cToward a Usable Black History,\u201d <\/a>by John McWhorter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/html\/6_4_soundings.html#08\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201c<i>Still <\/i>Coming to Dinner\u201d <\/a>(on interracial marriage rates), by Matthew Robinson.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/html\/5_3_a1.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cA Whole Different Crop of Black Leaders,\u201d <\/a>by Tamar Jacoby.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIFT EV\u2019RY VOICE AND SING: Here are several links with, as promised, cheerier stuff about black America. They go from most to least depressing. All are from City Journal\u2026 because I\u2019m lazy. \u201cWhat\u2019s Holding Blacks Back?\u201d, by John McWhorter. \u201cWashington\u2019s Lost Black Aristocracy,\u201d by Tucker Carlson. \u201cToward a Usable Black History,\u201d by John McWhorter. \u201cStill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Eve Tushnet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"LIFT EV&#039;RY VOICE AND SING: Here are several links with, as promised, cheerier stuff about black America. They go from most to least depressing. 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