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...Floyd McKissick, CORE's new National Director, was left with the duty of explaining that the dream -- at least for lower-class Negroes -- had never existed...
...McKissick was compelled to take a negative stance: "Black power is not black supremacy, does not mean the exclusion of white Americans from the Negro revolution, does not advocate violence, and will not start riots...
First, as we now know, black power addresses itself to the Negro lower-class, that "90% unaffected by civil rights," as McKissick puts it. Civil Rights has been, and remains, a middle-class movement whose purpose is to remove barriers to the advancement of "qualified" Negroes (in other words, those who are educated, upwardly mobile, and well-be-haved). Because the basic motif of equal opportunity is so strong in American society, the civil rights movement has been blessed with a set of easily identifiable enemies and simple issues: Jim Clark, "Freedom Now," and so forth...
Every image is white in this society, he continued. "Even when you go into the church and pray to Christ, you look up and sure enough he's white too, and you wonder 'will he hurt me'" McKissick said...
...same problem exists in the New York School System where predominantly Negro schools have a white principal "Negro school children need someone they can identify with so that they can aspire to being a principal one day," McKissick said...