In a review of Henry Louis Gates's book, last week the SF Chronicle Newspaper anointed Dr. Gates as the nation's foremost Black intellectual. Their exact words were, "Widely regarded as the country's leading intellectual." This is the same newspaper that gave us John McWhorters over and over again. Will they ever stop giving us our top leaders, top thinkers, top Black political leaders?

This tendency to speak a thing into existence is a favorite technique of the White media. They decide that they like, say a John McWhorters, and bingo, he is the darling of us all. That works on Gary Conduit; it does not work on Black people. One sure way to get the Black community suspicious of a Black writer, political figure, etc., is for a fair-minded paper like the SF Chronicle or another fair-minded paper like the Washington Times to speak very highly of that person.

We have seen what these fair-minded newspapers think about the Black and Brown communities. We therefore know what is good to them in a Black or Brown person is not always good [hardly ever] to the Black community. The Hearst owned Examiner Newspaper has not changed too much--only its name to The SF Chronicle Newspaper.

Gates is not a Clarence Thomas that is sure, whom, we assume, the SF Chronicle would have us believe is the leading Black Jurist in this country. Yeah, sure. Any other lies that are to create reality? []

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