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Yes. It certainly is an example of what I said before you even read these quotes. That term liberal is pejorative. It's all of the problems of race, or the unsolved problems of race. I presume he is suggesting here that the wide discrepancy in black and white unemployment, the fact that over fifty percent of black youth are unemployed, the fact that forty--admitted, forty-six percent of the black youth will drop out of school in New York City, that these are the consequences of liberal policies. I find this kind of reasoning fascinating. The core here, the common denominator is not new, that the victims of oppression and discrimination are responsible for their predicament. The society now needs to, the larger society needs only to keep saying this repeatedly to put the guilt of these manifestations of racism and oppression on the shoulders of the victims of it. This is--as I say, this is not new. It's now just becoming more popular, and more acceptable. For example, the problems of the deterioration of a black family is now being discussed in terms of some inherent inferiority among blacks, particularly black males. It's not being discussed in terms of the stability of a family, in terms of an economic base for family stability. It's not being discussed in terms of the fact that unemployment among black males reflects itself in the inability of the black male to be a provider for a family.

A number of years ago, I wrote a chapter in a book, that I was looking at the other day. I don't even know where it is now, in which I--that was in 1965. I pointed out that black males are psychologically humiliated by their inability to provide an economic base for their families, and seek escape. They leave. Not all, of