Leave it to Studs Terkel to put things in perspective. “Colin Powell, we know, is the Contrast him today to the FCC kid who’s the son of Colin Powell, right? And Colin Powell, <\/P> Although “Hope Dies Last” has been described as a summation of his long career, Terkel A man of his time as perhaps no other, Terkel cites Feb. 15, 2003, as a special day. “I He adds: “If ever there were a time for these people, who I’ve admired for years, this is it. Leave it to Studs Terkel to put things in perspective. “Colin Powell, we know, is the African-American butler to the new Bertie Wooster,” he tells Salon in an interview about his latest book, “Hope Dies Last: Keeping Faith in Difficult Times.” Here’s the full quotation and the context: You notice I dedicate the book to a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-7g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAfrican-American butler to the new Bertie Wooster,”
\n
\nDies Last: Keeping Faith in Difficult Times.”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> Here’s the full
\nquotation and the context:<\/P>
\nYou notice I dedicate the book to a couple whom you may not know, Clifford
\nand Virginia Durr. They were a white couple living in Montgomery, Ala. She was the sister-in-law
\nof [Supreme Court Justice] Hugo Black. And he was a member of the FCC [Federal
\nCommunications Commission], who wrote the “Blue Book” on the rights of listeners — air
\nbelongs to the public! — for as much variety of programming as possible.
\n
\nwe know, is the African-American butler to the new Bertie Wooster. Bertie was a little milder
\nthan W., not quite so mean-spirited. He had a British butler, and Bush has one too. His name is
\nTony Blair. But his American butler is very elegant, and Powell’s son [Michael] is the footman at
\nthe head of the FCC. He lays out the red carpet for them. So now we have an FCC that says, “The
\nhell with regulation! Clear Channel, you can own 10,000 stations if you
\nwant!”<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
\n
\n
\nsounds at 91 like someone just starting out. “I thought, why not a book about all those who have
\nhad hope, and have taken their beatings and paid their dues — but as a result of what they’ve done,
\nsomething has happened,” he says. The book is about “the prophetic minority …
\npeople who we call activists. Who are imbued with a sort of hope and craziness, you know — who
\nsome way or another hope our society, or the world, will be a more decent place to live in. They
\nimbue all the rest of us with hope.”<\/P>
\n
\ncelebrate that day,” he says, “because 10 million people all over the world came out against the
\npreemptive strike [against Iraq]. And then there was silence, because for three days it looked like
\nW. was the liberator of Iraq. Then, well, we know what happened.” <\/P>
\n
\nThere was Tom Paine, there were the abolitionists. In the ’60s there were the African-Americans
\nwho fought for civil rights, the kids against the war. Who were a minority, remember; the jocks
\nbeat the shit out of them at first and then joined them later. That’s what I mean by a prophetic
\nminority.”<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"