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Let's Get Ready to Rumble! (Correspondence).

American Prospect, The,  April, 2003  by Robertson, Andrew W.

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GARANCE FRANKE-RUTA has clearly put on the brass knuckles in the battle with the Rev. Al Sharpton ["Let's Get Ready to Rumble," February 2003]. I had just returned from my college bookstore when I read the sentence about "the sort of Marxist African histories routinely sold on Manhattan street corners and taught in City University of New York (CUNY) schools." As a professor who teaches at the CUNY, I believe this is an outrageous generalization based perhaps on the spurious notions of Leonard Jeffries and others in the 1980s.

It does great discredit to most of ...

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