Whenever Black people voluntarily gather among themselves, assimilationists do not see spaces of Black solidarity created to separate Black people from racism. They see spaces of White hate. They do not see spaces of cultural solidarity, of solidarity against racism. They see spaces of segregation against White people. Assimilationists do not see these spaces as the movement of Black people toward Black people. Assimilationists think about them as a movement away from White people. They then equate that supposed movement away from White people with the White segregationist movement away from
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