Word: self-respect
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...Crimson reported that "the sentiment of Harvard men was well nigh universal that no other course was open to them without a sacrifice of self-respect...
...blacks should focus on whatever increases black self-respect and pride. That is the answer." He--old friend, old comrade--leans across the table, voice angry, eyes flame throwing. I should not have said "should...
...right--presumptuous and prim but on the money: self-respect. The answer is in the black mind. Forget about the white mind. The Muslims have been saying it for years...
...when a white man says such things, the truth, arriving from the wrong direction, becomes an enemy truth to blacks--less welcome than a lie. (Enslave them, and then lecture them about self-respect--cutely done, Mr. Charles.) Still, my Inner Ranter is awake and would push my friend even further. He wants to say, "Forget about racism, about racists. They are always there, and irrelevant. What matters is the content of the black mind, not the white. Building the black mind, its morale." I do not say it. I have no right. My friend ascribes the ills...
...handsome, brainy, son of a distinguished family, successfully married, light-skinned in a city (Washington) where--a source of ideological discomfort--light skin proclaims the black elite. He was educated in the Ivy League, has climbed high in his profession. But precisely the reasons for which he should feel self-respect, airtight reasons for a white man, raise confusing interior questions about his identity as a black man. Or so I surmise. Hence the anger. Ellis Cose wrote a book called The Rage of a Privileged Class about black executives and law partners who earn half a million dollars...