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Thursday, 20th March 2008

Frustrated in their isolation from the main streams of American life, and in their impotence to control their life decisively, Negroes tend to admire an aggressive Race Man even when his motives are suspect... Even conservative Negroes admire coloured radicals who buck the white world. Preachers may oppose sin, but they will also express a sneaking admiration for a Negro criminal who decisively outwits white people. Even the quiet, well-disciplined family man may get a thrill when a "bad Negro" blows his top and goes down with both guns blazing at the White Law. Such identification is usually covert and unconscious, and may even be feared and regretted by the very persons who experience it. Race pride sometimes verges upon the vindictive, but it is a direct result of the position to which white America has consigned the Negro group.

St.Clair Drake & Horace Cayton, Black Metropolis.

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