Racial undertones in Horowitz's rhetoric
The 'Prince' has recently published several letters to the editor calling upon the editorial staff to defend its argument that David Horowitz is a racist and not simply condescending or strident. From my perusal of the website, it appears that the editorial staff has not done so at this time. This is unfortunate because it is not difficult for the 'Prince' staff to defend its claim in its April 4th editorial.
Horowitz's racism appears in point #9 of the ad, when he writes that "there never was an anti-slavery movement until white Christians — Englishmen and Americans — created one. If not for the anti-slavery attitudes and military power of white Englishmen and Americans, the slave trade would not have been brought to an end." In this sentence, because of Horowitz's lack of subtlety and historical context — apparent also in the longer version of the piece available online at www.salon.com/news/col/horo/2000/05/30/reparations/index.html — one can fairly interpret Horowitz to be claiming that radical democracy is an enlightened form of government that is the creation and property of white Westerners. Furthermore, Westerners' skin color, ethnicity and religion have everything to do with why we live in a democratic society today. In short, skin color is essentially intertwined with enlightenment and intelligence.
Note that Horowitz could have given his readers a completely different impression by using a phrase such as "Englishmen and Americans who were coincidentally white" or "the debt African Americans owe to the idea of democracy" instead of the phrase "white America." He didn't, and this is telling. Horowitz may simply be a sloppy writer, but his argument in point #9 roots human capacities in skin color, and this defines racist ideology. Martin Kavka '92
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