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Quotation by Ishmael Reed
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Airing Dirty Laundry Addison-Wesley (1993)"American Poetry: Is There a Center?" Black American Literature Forum (January 1978)"America's Color Bind: The Modeling of Minorities" San Francisco Examiner (November 1987)Beware: Do Not Read This Poem"Blacks Must Put 'Filthy' Money to Work," Los Angeles Times, Dec. 26, 1974
Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the so—called educational system, which is nothing more than a system of rewards and punishments based upon one's ability to pledge loyalty oaths to Anglo culture. The media and the "educational system" are the prime sources of racism in the United States.
Ishmael Reed (b. 1938), U.S. novelist, poet, essayist. God Made Alaska for the Indians, "Race War in America?" Garland Publishing (1982).
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