Word: ragingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impresario of powerful, conflicting emotions, Farrakhan orchestrates pride and rage, love and hate, raising his revival tent on the twin poles of black self-reliance and white race baiting. If anyone was tempted to forget that, amid all the hopeful talk of healing and atonement--and plenty of moderate blacks who saw in the march a desperately needed chance for spiritual renewal clearly were tempted--Farrakhan made it impossible. In an interview released late last week he repeated some of his favorite calumnies against the Jews--"bloodsuckers," as he called them, who exploit blacks and "were involved in the slave...
...work with everyone," he says. "I respect the Nation of Islam, but they just want to divide. There are a lot of black men without access to the good things in life, watching their kids do without, and facing a lot of anger. It's a cycle of rage, and talking about the years of captivity [as he feels the Nation does] just makes more fire for the rage. It's like pumping poison into people...
...that the black rage was indeed as serious as that eruption of joy made it appear. It still might be limited to the post-Rodney King L.A.P.D., or to the California system of justice, or, at its broadest, to the American system of justice; but surely never to America as a whole. If the rage was vented on America as a whole, well, it could mean that James Baldwin had been right in Another Country, that African Americans can never feel at home at home...
...coronary-care unit awaiting his bypass operation, Morrow begins to relate his own medical predicament to events in the outside world: "My mind went wandering about, working as a kind of journalist of memory and anger. I sought to connect my inner world and my dilemma (the rage that gave me this blocked heart) to outer catastrophes. I sailed off to Bosnia and Hiroshima--big objective correlatives." Spasms of bloodthirsty fury, he observes, can block up the collective heart of entire ethnic groups, who cannot let go of old grievances...
...witnessed as an adult are Morrow's bittersweet memories of his troubled childhood. He recalls injustices at the hands of self-absorbed parents whose "dreamy narcissism" and "dangerous veerings" kept them too preoccupied with their own lives to be concerned with his. What is revealed behind Morrow's frustrated rage is the uncomprehending powerlessness of a damaged, loveless child. "When the heart aches," he tells us, exposing the impotence of the violated, "the poor thing is screaming for blood...