“I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.”
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Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.
Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic, ' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor, ' it's crucial to say that.
We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.