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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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