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...longer mad at the good whites who felt Blacks were equal as long as they did not try to live in their neighborhoods, date their children or start running things. All the violent rage that had so frightened them was directed at the racists, the Southerners, the Ku Klux Klan, but not people who "even had some Black friends...
...involved must recognize the "rage, disillusionment, sadness, and insecurity" of their traditional foes, Oz said. "At least they're beginning to realize that the other side is real and here to stay," he said...
...blackmails his boss for an air ticket and follows the trail to Munich. The corruption here is prosperity gone to fat. Needing to create a diversion in a parking garage, Arkady jostles a swollen, glistening car. Its alarm screams. Another jostled car and another; the German miracle bawls its rage. On to post-Wall Berlin, awash in refugees and resentments, smelling of money, poverty and developers' schemes. Arkady has found his old love Irina, the Siberian beauty lost in the West since Gorky Park, and they spend the night together on the tiled floor of a raw, unfinished apartment...
...pieces that focus more closely on Malcolm X himself are equally revealing. Cornel West's essay on "Malcolm X and Black Rage" deals with the transformative, freeing anger so central to Malcolm's thought and his electrifying oratory style. For West, Malcolm articulated outrage at "the sheer absurdity that confronts human beings of African descent in this country--the incessant assaults on Black intelligence, beauty, character and possibility." With his trademark eloquence, West elucidates how that rage served to perform a "Black psychic conversion," a defiant re-evaluation of the self that is free of American racist values. West argues...
...accumulates in more regimented societies? In the prose of law, the tension between these polarities crackles over the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are "created equal," with "certain unalienable rights," among which is "the pursuit of happiness," no less. We also have a government so designed that "rage" for "improper or wicked project((s))," as James Madison put it, may not easily sweep through it. In the poetry of action, that tension of the soul between the hero each of us aspires to be and the transgressors we too often are is captured in the Leatherstocking tales. Boys...