He said the Panthers were a front for criminal and drug activities It took that kind of shock for him to see what had happened. Until now, according to neoconservatives, the race issue was being handled just fine. Horowitz argued, for example, that American blacks don't deserve reparations because the slaves' descendants today earn fifty times as much money per capita as blacks whose ancestors were not slaves. That's true, but according to the rules agreed to by neos and respectables, you are not allowed to talk about race just because what you say is true. No one is allowed to point to white achievements, and every conservative publication agrees to this.
White people are only to be mentioned when something they did was bad.
All through the civil rights battle, liberals made it clear that if you are free to discuss what each race actually did, that leads you straight into white supremacy. You could not have gotten integration, much less the total suppression of all dissent on campuses, if racial heresy were allowed. Needless to say, the Thought Police are now in charge of any discussion of genetics on campus. The Human Genome Project is based on the ground-breaking research of three scientists. To prove his political orthodoxy, one of them donated all his prize money for the project to the Black Panthers.