    
Chris Hayden
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Votes: 0 | | Posted on Monday, February 03, 2003 - 10:26 am: | |
I dislike him because I think he is a fraud--here is a professor of economics who hardly ever writes/comments on economics, always on race--and he is not a sociologist. He is supposed to be an academic, yet he never comes up with statistics but uses anecdotal evidence or his opinions.
He is a gun for hire for social conservatives who like to use him to justify their racist opinions and positions to retard African American progress. Rush Limbaugh used to use him, doesn't much anymore, maybe because he was so wimpishly pathetic as a talkshow guest.
Like many blacks who used affirmative action to get where they are he opposes it now--all I can think is he wants to slam the door behind him and keep the benefits for himself--like Martin Kilson of Harvard. He is continually described as "brave", how can he get in trouble with the power structure for his views.
If I thought he came by his views honestly I might disagree but at least respect him ( I keep wondering what these Black conservatives are trying to conserve) but I think he just sees a way to a gravy train writing dull, unoriginal columns and books (surely a form of affirmative action in itself) for use by the radical right. |