click on your name and get access to your commenting history, don't you? The same goes for mine. What I said is simple reality and can be easily ascertained to any reader's satisfaction, while your disparagement of my commentating can also be easily and independently verified or refuted, (depending on point of view I suppose), by the same process. I'll leave it for others to judge as it's late and tomorrow comes early. Goodnight. You are the worst example of a patriot living. You wouldn't lift a finger if some rich asshole bought out your mortgage out from under you and threw you and yours into the street.. I bet you never served in the Military either... Go away and appease the rich thieving asswipes at the top somewhere else! I pity your offspring... Interesting. From a Ralph Dumain review of Intellectuals and Public Life: Between Radicalism and Reform: Another important chapter is "The Political Uses of Alienation: W.E.B. Du Bois on Politics, Race, and Culture, 1903-1940? by Thomas C. Holt. This essay begins with the famous quote on double consciousness, but it leads to Du Bois' complex articulation of the relation between race and class in political strategy. Anyone interested in the politics of race and class needs to read this. There is a fascinating discussion of Du Bois' political thinking of the early 1930s, which led to his rupture with the NAACP. In the face of America's bleak racial prospects, Du Bois advocates voluntary self-segregation to build up