all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice. Even the civil rights crusaders were racists, in a subtle but no less destructive way. They ran the civil rights show, as they would later run the poverty show: "All right, here's what we're going to do." And their black allies believed and cooperated because they wanted so deeply to believe that it was the start of something new and wonder- ful, a gradual complete change of heart by the white majority. They were expecting a miracle, and of course no miracle hap- pened.
