“Mr. Kennedy, a Harvard Law School professor, is black, and part of what has driven him to write this book is being called a sellout himself on occasion (…)
“That judgment would be impossible for anyone who actually read the book, and, in Sellout
(…)
“The notion that there are ‘Uncle Toms’ rubbing their hands together and taking money from ‘the white man’ is, in a word, primitive. It resembles the reasoning style of preliterate cultures, which rely on mythical archetypes and unquestioning Manichaean dichotomies as the only way to make sense of the complexities of existence within a prescientific mindset.
“Black Americans are surely more intellectually advanced than this…”