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...a large portion of Bradley money goes to the major colleges and universities. Bradley president Michael Joyce "...believes that investment in academia is vital to the long-term success of the conservative movement, and has directed millions toward academic research and program development. According to Joyce, Bradley has helped pay for the work of approximately 600 graduate students over the years. 'That's like building a wine collection,' he said." [From "Buying a Movement."] One of these bottles of fine wine is Dinesh D'Souza, a [former] scholar at the Bradley-funded American Enterprise Institute. As an undergraduate student at Dartmouth College, D'Souza founded and served as editor of the ultra-conservative Dartmouth Review, the first member of the (now) Bradley-funded Madison Center for Educational Affairs "Collegiate Network." The Review was reportedly kicked off campus after a student uproar following the paper's publishing of "humorous" articles featuring KKK-type stereotypes of Black students. During D'Souza's term as editor, the Review also reportedly published private correspondence of gay students stolen by its staff members. D'Souza's next journalistic stint was as editor of Prospect, a paper that under his leadership published an attack on women's studies and an "expose" of the sex life of a woman undergraduate student, without her permission [according to author Ellen Messer-Davidow.] With this impressive resume behind him -- and having penned a glowing biography of Moral Majority leader Jerry Falwell -- D'Souza was hired as senior domestic policy analyst in the Reagan administration. As a [former] John M. Olin scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, he [formerly] receive[d] an annual grant in excess of $100,000. His subsequent books have also received backing from the Madison Center. In 1995, D'Souza came out with "The End of Racism: Principles for a Multiracial Society." The book argues that low-income Black people are basically "pathological" and that white racism isn't really racism at all, just a logical response to this "pathology." D'Souza maintains racism will only end when "...blacks as a group can show that they are capable of performing competitively in schools and the work force...If blacks can close the civilization gap, the race problem in this country is likely to become insignificant." The book would have made interesting reading on the Middle Passage, that early example of European "civilization." And in fact, D'Souza also writes that slavery itself was not a racist institution, merely "economic." He further states that segregation was designed "...to assure that [Blacks], like the handicapped, would be...permitted to perform to the capacity of their arrested development." The book was reportedly marketed extensively in business circles. [From "Buying a Movement."] -- P.S. If exposing the likes of Dinesh D'Souza is a personal attack, then so be it. If a person journalist exposes himself to the extent of inviting ciriticism, than I don't see anything wrong in it. After all it shows how he progressed. I fail to see any crab mentality; a frequent Goan myth professed on this site. Cheers, Gabe Menezes. London, England
