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...have not the words, but more than that, I have not the experience to explain what it is like to walk down the street in a white city, with a black face. I have no idea what it would be like to know that my grandfather was a slave. I do not know what it is like to have learned that I am here by the grace of a white God, because I am of a race of savages...
This society provides no way to live happily with another person. If the man works and the woman does not, the woman becomes a slave. If both work, they can probably have no kids, because there are no day care centers. Besides, the system makes sure that most women never get a creative job-there are so few left in this country anyway...
Without the presence of blacks, our political history would have been otherwise. No slave economy, no Civil War; no violent destruction of the Reconstruction; no K.K.K. and no Jim Crow system. And without the disenfranchisement of black Americans and the manipulation of racial fears and prejudices, the disproportionate impact of white Southern politicians upon our domestic and foreign policies would have been impossible. Indeed, it is almost impossible to conceive of what our political system would have become without the snarl of forces-cultural, racial, religious-that makes our nation what it is today...
Laughter, simmered in self-mockery, was the first black soul food. It fed the slave during his fierce day's travail in the shimmering Georgia cotton fields. It simultaneously comforted the second-class citizen and nurtured his sense of subservience during the agonizing disappointment of Reconstruction and through the long dark age of de jure segregation. Flight from reality, as illustrated in the nonsense lyric of Dan Tucker, formed the bedrock of the earliest Negro humor. Later, vaudeville, radio and the movies perpetuated the blackface minstrel stereotype of the happy-go-lucky devourer of watermelons...
Also aimed at shock, but much cooler, is the work of New York's Malcolm Bailey, 22. In Hold (Separate but Equal), a group of black and white figures are lined up on opposite sides of the canvas, but both races are in the same boat-a slave ship. "Real revolution won't occur until poor whites as well as poor blacks realize they are oppressed," Bailey explains. Bailey's career is typical of the new opportunities opening for talented young blacks. Born in Harlem, he got scholarship funds to Pratt Institute. He appeared in the Whitney...