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The following is a collection of quotes by BLACK Americans:
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ROBERT C. MAYNARD (black, syndicated columnist)
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"The underclass is a lawless, illiterate minority with zero
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regard for the common decencies of those more fortunate than
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they. (It is categorized by) masses of illiterate, untrained
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youth on the streets with abundant access to drugs and guns.
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(This is) our nation's future. Unless we begin to re-channel
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the energies and reshape the values of the youth of that
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underclass, none of us is safe. The burgeoning underclass is
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the social dynamite that threatens the stability of the entire
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society."
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WILLIAM HOUGH (black, retired Army sergeant)
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"We have been accusing whites of the very same offense for years.
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No there is no other ethnic group in America that seems more
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prejudiced than us blacks. And it is virtually destroying us as
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a race. The black media, the black leaders and our parents must
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share in the blame for this. What started out as black pride
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eventually turned into black racism. How can we see racism and
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prejudice in other races but fail to recognize it among ourselves?
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We are constantly bombarded with negativism by our black press. For
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instance, we are fed depressing information about this wicked, one-
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sided society that we live in and that our chance of making it is
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almost nil.
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We hear this same kind of negativism from family, friends, and
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neighbors. No wonder so many young blacks are turned off. We end
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up with an embittered and confused individual.
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Black Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, when he was chairman
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of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, charged that black
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leaders 'are sitting there watching the destruction of our race
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while they bitch, bitch, bitch about Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan
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isn't the problem. Jimmy Carter was not the problem. The lack of
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black leadership is the problem."
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WALTER WILLIAMS (black professor at George Mason University)
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"Civil rights organizations, once part of a proud struggle, have
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now squandered their moral authority. They are little more than
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race hustlers championing a racial spoils system. They no longer
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seek fair play and a color blind society. Their agenda is one of
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rights, where quota is king and colorblindness is viewed with
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contempt. Today's civil rights organizations differ only in degree
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,but not in kind, from white racist organizations past and present."
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SHELBY STEELE (a black professor)
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"A generation after the Watts riot and the passage of the Civil
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Rights Act of 1964, it is time for blacks to drop the crutch of
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racial victimization and rely on their own efforts to gain access
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to the American mainstream."
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"The opportunities are there. Blacks have only to stop hiding
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behind racism and take advantage of them. While racism still exists,
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it is not what is holding back America's black people. Instead, the
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specter of racism has become a crippling fixation of blacks, a way
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not just to excuse failure but to avoid dealing with real problems.
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Victimization views white people as omnipotent. It is as though
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white people are in charge of our fate rather than ourselves. The
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sense of victimization has led blacks to rely on programs like
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affirmative action that both stem from and perpetuate their sense
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of being victims."
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"The insistence on black victimization and white guilt sets in motion
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a never-ending and ultimately futile, inter-racial battle . . . that
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leaves us with an identity (as a victim) that is at war with our best
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interests, that magnifies our oppression and diminishes our sense of
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possibility."
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"It did blacks no good to ignore their real fears and blame racism
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for all their failings. Blacks have tremendous possibilities, but
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if you think you're up against a white racism and your just a total
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victim of it, then you can't do anything except be mad."
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