“There’s a WL line—the ‘They’re poor but they’re happy’ line. They do have nice smiles and good senses of humor, but that’s entirely different.” Like many of his remarks, this one gave me pause. Just when you thought you had the hang of his worldview, he’d surprise you. He had problems with groups that on the surface would have seemed like allies, that often were allies in fact, with for example what he called “WL’s”—white liberals, some of whose most influential spokespeople were black and prosperous. “I love WL’s, love ’em to death. They’re on our side,” he had told me some days ago,
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