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"Is Colin Powell an Uncle Tom," one asks me. He and his comrades have just exploded
in a babble of outrage at this imperial arrogance. "Is he a token?"
"Uncle Tom was a phrase of contempt that Malcolm X used to differentiate the house
slave from the field slave," I say. "Powell has transcended that. He is no longer
just the house slave. He is now one of the masters. He is a brilliant bureaucrat.
Hardly a token.
"Many people regard an Uncle Tom to be someone who is witless, a fool who sells out
his own people, like Clarence Thomas. Powell is no fool. He is ruthless and very,
very smart. Clarence Thomas is an Uncle Tom. Powell is evil."
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CB: Thomas is a Sambo too. Thomas has significant power, as much as Powell.
(Actually, in the novel _Uncle Tom's Cabin_, Uncle Tom was not a sellout. That was
Sambo. So, technically Thomas and Powell are Sambos, though Uncle Tom is used often as
you use it here)
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