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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Just finished the book and thought it was good. But I cannot figure our why someone so smart, from the background is a conservative. [/quote] I can't figure it out either, but it must have something to do with his early mentors. It's hard to ignore how much he was helped along the way by people in positions of power. If you've got no one with power and know-how in your sphere, or at least someone willing to give you another shot after you've made mistakes, you've got no shot. If he'd been black, his mother and most of the men in his life would have been locked up or killed. I think the "learned helplessness" he talks about is at the root of his conservatism, but the conservatism ignores a lot of the help he needed to turn his life around.[/quote]
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