Free Republic

Founding fathers of a controversial notion Sunday, September 29, 2002BY JONATHAN TILOVE In 1969, a black Harvard MBA by the name of Richard America wrote a provocative piece for the Harvard Business Review. Entitled "What Do You People Want," it suggested ways that the government could transfer control of large businesses -- say a division of General Motors -- from whites to blacks.A year earlier, in Detroit, Richard Henry, a technical writer with the Army's Tank-automotive and Armaments Command, changed his name to Imari Obadele and helped found the Republic of New Afrika with the goal of wresting control of...