Chuck D has long since repudiated that view for a more nuanced one of cultural history, but the reason for the rumor's durability, the unassailable logic behind its common acceptance within the black community rests quite simply on the social inequities that have persisted to this day, the fact that we live in a society that is no more perfectly democratic today than it was 50 years ago.
Which brings him, this fall, to an uncomfortable pass: Having long ago repudiated negative ads, how does he counter the hits from Republicans?
The sharp-tongued Dutch-Moroccan mayor was an alderman in Amsterdam in 2004, when an Islamist extremist murdered the Dutch television satirist Theo van Gogh, and he has long called on Muslims to actively repudiate fundamentalism.
In part, this implies that as a country we have come to recognize and repudiate the mythology of racial hierarchy and accept what science has long since proven, that biologically there is only one human species, only one human race.
The parents' marriage had long been shaky, Leo Rabkin said this week, and after Hitler came to power in 1933, the mother left the family and repudiated her children.
And WorldCom, No. 2 in long distance, has repudiated the notion of a communications conglomerate as it plans to issue a new, separate stock for its MCI consumer unit while focusing on business customers.
Evolutionary theory has historically been repudiated by feminists who believe that biology and natural selection are tools to perpetuate "right wing" ideals that emphasize patriarchal rhetoric of female subjugation and that, consequently, have long-term political implications (Gowaty 1992; Wright 1994).
Indeed, this circuit has clearly repudiated Toksvig and its progeny.
"The wolf's dictionary," he declared, "has been repudiated".
