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'''Dinesh D'Souza''', sometimes called ''Distort D'Newsa'', is a right-wing academic.

* [[American Enterprise Institute]], John M. Olin Scholar

* [[Hoover Institution]]

== Attacking blacks ==

As noted in a September 22, 1995, article in The Washington Post, "[T]he off-campus newspaper [The Dartmouth Review] published an interview with a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, using a mock photograph of a black man hanging from a campus tree".

D'Souza's key work is the 700-page ''[[The End of Racism]]'' which argued that the attack on racism was a more serious problem than racism itself, concluding that laws like the 1964 Civil Rights Act should be repealed. D'Souza also suggests that blacks are pathological and that racism was simply a rational response to black pathology. D'Souza's own website says the book "argues that the American obsession with race is fueled by a civil rights establishment that has a vested interest in perpetuating black dependency." [http://www.dineshdsouza.com/endof.html]

After the book was published along with [[The Bell Curve]] Glenn Loury and Robert Woodson, two Aftican-American colleagues of D'Souza's at the American Enterprise, resigned in protest.

:[The Civil Rights Movement] sought to undermine white racism through a protest strategy that emphasized the recognition of basic rights for blacks, without considering that racism might be fortified if blacks were unable to exercise their rights effectively and responsibly.

:How did [Martin Luther] King succeed, almost single-handedly, in winning support for his agenda? Why was his Southern opposition virtually silent in making counterarguments?

In [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20106-2004Jun6.html a live chat with washingtonpost.com] on Ronald Reagan, D'Souza wrote that blacks rejected Reagan because Reagan felt that what you could do was important, not your race, and blacks disagreed.

:'''Dinesh D'Souza''': Reagan had an unfailingly inclusive vision of America. His view was that it didn't matter where you came from or who you were. What mattered was what you could do. Immigrants found this appealing. Blacks in general didn't. Blacks are at a peculiar point in their history where many of them believe that "race does matter" and "race should matter." A different vision from what Martin Luther King held in his "I Have a Dream" speech. So Reagan didn't reject blacks, blacks rejected Reagan. It's unfortunate, but I don't think it tells against Reagan. Maybe there will be some reconsideration of Reagan now by African Americans.

As editor of the ''Dartmouth Review'', D'Souza stole correspondence from the school's Gay Student Alliance and published it, outing several gay students to friends and family and driving one to consider suicide. When ''The Nation'' published an article stating this, D'Souza wrote asking for a retraction, calling the piece "lies from the loony left", and sending articles which he said would clear his name. But bizarrely, the articles he included showed that the claim was true -- they included a piece written under his byline that featured excerpts from gay students correspondence.