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Oddly enough in our hyper-cynical society, there seems to be little questioning about underlying goals of some of the #BlackLivesMatter protests and related on-campus activism.
Not to worry, Tom Wolfe did the job, pulling back the curtain for us way back in 1970. That’s probably a good thing since there probably aren’t any authors who are as brave today or as talented.
In Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, Tom Wolfe, author of The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities, describes the changes that took place in American black culture with the rise of federal and local bureaucratic programs in the 1960s aimed at curing poverty and creating equity. From Wolfe’s perspective, there was a large pot of money that was there for the taking and in all his un-PC ways, he describes how things went down and uses the term “mau-mauing” to describe the activity of threatening the bureaucrats and white leadership in order to secure patronage.
Once a slave always a slave
Vote Joe for social justice comrades or you ain't a slave
Not to worry, Tom Wolfe did the job, pulling back the curtain for us way back in 1970. That’s probably a good thing since there probably aren’t any authors who are as brave today or as talented.
In Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, Tom Wolfe, author of The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities, describes the changes that took place in American black culture with the rise of federal and local bureaucratic programs in the 1960s aimed at curing poverty and creating equity. From Wolfe’s perspective, there was a large pot of money that was there for the taking and in all his un-PC ways, he describes how things went down and uses the term “mau-mauing” to describe the activity of threatening the bureaucrats and white leadership in order to secure patronage.
Once a slave always a slave
Vote Joe for social justice comrades or you ain't a slave
