[Pelham]

A voice from the past. 1962 to be precise.

[Pelham]

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[Teacher317]

agreement with Martin Luther King, who said, "Black supremacy is as dangerous as white supremacy."

Hmm

[OddLane]

And he's still kickin'.

Always enjoy reading a good piece by Hentoff.

[zeestephen]

Nat Hentoff, the author, will be 90 in June.

He frequently published in Playboy Magazine during the same time period (1962) he wrote this piece about Black Americans.

In those years he was a vocal, mainstream Leftist on most issues, but I don't recall that he was ever anti-Israel, or that he ever attacked free enterprise or great wealth.

Hentoff started to publicly move to the Right on several issues around 1980. Very late in life, he actually went to work for the Cato Institute, and he even wrote a weekly column for World Net Daily at one point in time.

[wardaddy]

He wrote in the Voice in my day in the Apple

A realistic Woody Guthrie contemporary

Very idiosyncratic

He was prescient about where race was headed even though in his day he loved to bait a bit about bigotry

Sort of an old school urban Jew ...huge Jazz guy....his worldview pretty much emanates from the Village up the I 95 corridor to Beacon Hill

Liberal about social views except abortion a few others

Acts conservative about Israel

Hated Bush and Satan Vice President

An Atlantic writer frequently

Amazing he’s been prolific so long

[Steve0113]

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