loss of its privileged position in its racist caste society; its system of white supremacy and world government (USA 325). After all, the United States was built and founded on the double standard Jeffersonian principle that all men are NOT created equal, that the black race (or any other non-white group) must be held down at all costs.While many during the Civil Rights Movement supported a nationalistic movement with a separate black government, the possibility of black dominance in America, a reversal of racial power, was also voiced. Nathan Hare writes,A broad-based black power movement need [not] fear the white-voiced deterrent that black power may simply replace white power. If that is the case, then turn-about is fair play. This will depend on the willingness of white power to cooperate in the just correction of grievances and inequalities without delay. It is their decision, and this is not a plea, for I have no faith that -- given the nature of its existing institutions, belief systems, and practices -- white America can fully rectify the situation. (223)Continuing, Hare asserts, Black men must bring an irresistible black power force to clash with the immovable object of white oppression with such velocity that America will either solve her problems or suffer the destruction she deserves (my emphasis) (223-4). And this is the key to understanding black rage in America. Can this velocity, once in motion -- and it is in motion -- be stopped? Will the resulting behavior caused by white oppression -- black rage -- subside at a place called equality? Or, will a reversal in racial dominance occur? Racial dominance has been tried and proven time and time again. Equality has not.Perhaps encapsulating the entire struggle of rage during the Civil Rights Movement are the works of Malcolm X. In one speech, he proclaims, Until the problem of the black people in this country is solved, the white people have a problem thats going...
