Word: rage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would deny that there is wide demoralization among American Negroes, who are generally frustrated from cradle to grave in their attempts to find a "place in the sun." If, indeed, the crime rate among my people is high, it is because the Negro, in his rage, is striking back at a society that denies him the chance to be a man and to make an honorable life for himself...
...Snake" because he was always sneaking up on the slaves at work, Covey ruled by terror. "My natural elasticity was crushed," writes Douglass, "the disposition to read departed, the dark night of slavery closed in upon me." But Covey flogged Douglass once too often. In a fit of rage, Douglass grabbed Covey by the neck and beat him up. Covey never called the police, Douglass reasoned, because he was afraid of tarnishing his "nigger-breaker" reputation. Douglass recovered his spirit from the fight and made a hair-raising escape North...
...Fear & Acceptance. And what of the Negro's rage? It grows, says Baldwin, from the white man's "sleeping terror." "We would never, never allow Negroes to starve, to grow bitter, and to die in ghettos all over the country if we were not driven by some nameless fear that has nothing to do with Negroes. We would never victimize, as we do, children whose only crime is color, and keep them, as we put it, in their place. We wouldn't drive Negroes mad as we do by accepting them in ballparks, and on concert stages...
...Negro rage is provoked, furthermore, by the white man's insistence on his own superiority, by his demand that the Negro, to achieve equality, must be accepted according to the white man's own definition of acceptability. "I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be 'accepted' by white people," writes Baldwin, "still less to be loved by them; they, the blacks, simply don't wish to be beaten over the head by the whites every instant of our brief passage on this planet...
Mills is properly and pompously upset by such exchanges. Stomping about the stage with righteous rage, he eloquently pleads his case for decency in parliamentary fashion against a woman whose mind is unaffected by argument...