I remember her last blog post. A brilliant lady, so sad.
Although it seems like a much longer time, it was only two years ago
this month that black essayist and social critic Elizabeth Wright died.
In 1985 Ms. Wright inaugurated her website Issues & Views to
counter the racial proselytizing that was aggravating feelings of
victimization and entitlement in the black community.
The masthead of
her website bore the inscription: “So you still think all blacks think
alike?” Elizabeth Wright’s opinions certainly didn’t conform to the way
blacks were stereotyped by the establishment media. Like her mentor
Booker T. Washington, Wright felt that racial conflicts were best
resolved by conciliation rather than militancy. This represented quite a
change from the belligerent approach used by the NAACP and other
adversarial groups. Ms. Wright believed that the shrill accusations and
ultimatums of these contentious groups had become counterproductive. She
used her website to encourage a more pragmatic, less bellicose racial
dialogue but, as we would expect, Wright’s columns were ignored by the
mainstream media.
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