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>From: Art McGee <amcgee at igc.org>
>Subject: [BRC-NEWS] Quote of the Day: Randall Robinson
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> "My rage is complicated by the balm of comparative material
>success. I tell myself that I cannot be wounded by a red-faced hayseed.
>But I am. The child lives on in the man until death.
> My father died in 1974 at the age of sixty-eight, of what the
>family now believes to have been Alzheimer's disease. Toward the end, and
>not lucid, he slapped a nurse, telling her not to "put her White hand on
>him." His illness had afforded him a final brief honesty. I was perversely
>pleased when told the story.
> From slavery, we have sublimated our feelings about white people.
>We have fought for our rights while hiding our feelings toward whites who
>tenaciously denied us those rights. We have even, I suspect, hidden those
>feelings from ourselves. It is how we have survived.
> Well-educated blacks have even been inculcated with the
>upper-stratum white distaste for excessive emotionalism. Black folk of my
>time talk about white people and their predilections at least once daily
>but never talk about or with anger. It seems unnatural. Where have we
>stored the pain and at what price?
> The anger caroms around in our psyches like jagged stones hidden
>deep. We don't acknowledge it. We don't direct or aim it. But it is there.
> Spin the cannon. When it points threateningly outward, even white
>liberals dismiss us to a perimeter or irrelevance or worse. When it points
>inward, white conservatives find in our self-hate praiseworthiness.
> Best we just stow the cannon, hide the anger, and do the best we
>can. Without contemplation, this is the deal most of us are constrained to
>accept. A Nat Turner doesn't make it in America, but a Clarence Thomas
>frequently does."
>Randall Robinson
>"Defending the Spirit: A Black Life in America"
>1998
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