(Audio) Revisiting The Roots Of Black Rage And White Guilt At A Party At Lenny's

Tom Wolfe coined the term Radical Chic to describe white virtue-signalling rich people in 1970 who attended a party/meeting/happening thingy at Leonard Bernstein’s. They hosted some Black Panthers who were soliciting donations to help with their defense fund, several of them out on bail for having not committed crimes of which they were accused. Wolfe observed the early seeds of civil rights black rage and self-disempowerment which refuted the polite messages of power and personal responsibility advocated by the earliest civil rights leaders whom the Panthers and other self-styled revolutonaries called ‘Toms’.

But who were the real Toms? The Martin Luther King contingent or the folks forever guilt-tripping white liberals for handouts?

Saturday Night Live satirizes ‘radical chic’ in a 1982 sketch about a whitey-hating black poet

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