The Democratic Party has exploited black leadership. - Crispin Sartwell

" "
The Democratic Party has exploited black leadership.

Crispin Sartwell

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

English

Collect this quote

About Crispin Sartwell

Crispin Gallagher Sartwell (born 1958) is an American philosopher, self-professed and journalist. He received his B.A. from the , his M.A. from and his from the —where his dissertation supervisor was Richard Rorty—-and is currently on leave from his position as a member of the faculty of in .

Also Known As

Alternative Names: Crispin Gallagher Sartwell

All quotes from Crispin Sartwell Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Crispin Sartwell:

Jamelle Bouie Stokely Carmichael Charles V. Hamilton Bruce Bartlett Cornel West

Additional quotes by Crispin Sartwell

There's no reason for Republicans to waste any time on black voters; there are no votes there under any conditions. Rand Paul went to Ferguson and Baltimore to talk racial healing: no one cared or even noticed.

, where we pluck your best, brightest, most ambitious or conformist, and invite them into our elite institutions. This has had some effect on upward mobility, but its primary purpose is to parade as conspicuously as possible the non-racism of the people who run the institutions. It’s primarily another way for white people to mutter to themselves, “I am not a racist.” And it’s had the effect of dividing black communities and families, like mass incarceration in the other direction.

The progressive approach has left American racial inequality intractable: a permanent, institutionalized, chronic, insoluble condition. And the electoral process has left black people without any political leverage.