It’s hard to make all this clear or real to white people, but a lot of black people had come to this same point—feeling that there simply was no justice, no hope. All those radical anti-whites—Stokely Carmichael, Rap Brown, George Jackson, Eldridge Cleaver and the others—you heard about in the news, didn’t invent the injustices they talked about. They saw and felt oppression in a thousand ways. And not always open brutality either. It’s the system, the whole structure of economic and social cages that have neatly boxed the black man in so that “nice” people can join the oppression without
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