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Monday, April 26, 1999
IS PROMINENT THINK TANK A BASTION OF RACIST THEORY?
One of the most influential think tanks in the United States also
houses several of the nation's most controversial pundits on race
issues. In a new analysis, researcher Deborah Toler scrutinizes what
she calls the "race desk" at the American Enterprise Institute.
Toler, a policy analyst with the Institute for Public Accuracy,
contends that mainstream AEI conservatives and racist hate groups such
as the Council of Conservative Citizens share a preoccupation with
managing the emerging majority of people of color in the United
States. According to AEI fellows, African Americans in particular
constitute a major threat to Western civilization.
In "The End of Racism," AEI's John M. Olin fellow Dinesh D'Souza
blames African Americans' so-called "culture of poverty" for their
"failure" to achieve what whites and Asians in the U.S. have achieved.
D'Souza advocates as an appropriate policy response the repeal of the
1964 Civil Rights Act. Black conservatives Glenn Loury and Robert
Woodson found "The End of Racism" so offensive that they severed all
ties with AEI in protest.
Charles Murray's proposed study of genetic explanations for poverty
was too hot to handle for the conservative Manhattan Institute -- but
not for AEI, where he is a Bradley Fellow and where he completed the
controversial book "The Bell Curve." In his book "Slouching Towards
Gomorrah," Robert Bork -- AEI's John M. Olin Fellow in Legal Studies
-- locates much of the blame for the "decline of bourgeois culture" in
African American culture. AEI fellow Ben Wattenberg shares Bork's
perspective and has written that the global demographic dominance of
non-European populations threatens the ability of
the West to continue its role as "the driving force of modernization."
Despite considerable criticism of the overtly anti-African-American
views of its most visible racial policy analysts, AEI continues to
rake in huge sums of money from conservative foundations, corporations
and individual contributors. The Olin, William H. Donner and JM
foundations fund Wattenberg's PBS television show, "Think Tank." AEI
had $18.6 million in revenues in 1997 and expenses of only $14.3
million, allowing it to invest the surplus in building its endowment
and pre-funding future research.
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Toler's "The Right's 'Race Desk'" is a Think Tank Monitor inquiry.
Think Tank Monitor is a joint project of IPA and the media watch group
FAIR. The article is available in the most recent issue of Extra!, at
www.accuracy.org/articles.htm or from the Institute for Public
Accuracy. Interviews with Toler can be arranged by calling Sam
Husseini at the Institute for Public Accuracy: (202) 347-0020.
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