Crisis of the Negro Intellectual was a great book for a number of reasons - principal among those reasons was that it took the blinders off and named names. It also contextualized the essence of the failure - our collective inability to reconcile Washington to Dubois and Dubois to Garvey. We have failed to do this because of ideology, ego, weak study habits, intellectual laziness, cash payoffs, fear, and any of a host of human failings. To my mind, that is the epicenter of Cruse's book.
Cruse's principal concern was with establishing an authentic cultural framework for American Blacks to build cultural, economic, and political power. To the extent that Caribbean Africans impeded this process due to their unique, geo-political/economic circumstances, Cruse rejected this and explained the genesis, players and solution. He did the same with the Communist Party and Euro-American Jewry.
I am not familiar with the Fordham University professor who made this assessment of Cruse's work, but it carries little weight since I can read for myself - and have read the book at least three times. The term "anti-Semite" is reserved in the mind and suggests a host of unrelated issues - ground which may have covered best by James Baldwin. Harold Cruse was hardly concerned with conspiracy theories. Cruse outlined the SPECIFIC strategies and tactics used by SPECIFIC individuals within SPECIFIC organizations to achieve SPECIFIC aims. He wasn't the type of guy to do guess work.
It seems as though the Fordham cat and Foxman are simply using shared tactics along a singular intellectual spectrum. Dismiss and disassociate - no inquiry, no conversation, no discourse...Sounds like ADL 101 to me.
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