That’s just not true. He was calling out whites who merely pay lip service to civil rights while putting all their political capital into maintaining a discriminatory status quo.
That is unfortunately the majority, and the frustration at this fact does come through in many of his quotes, and it is well-placed.
His message to the white liberal was something to the effect of “Go home. This isn’t your fight.” I doubt he cared about how they felt about that.
He was a black separatist that wanted as little to do with whites as possible.
That’s just not true. He was calling out whites who merely pay lip service to civil rights while putting all their political capital into maintaining a discriminatory status quo.
That is unfortunately the majority, and the frustration at this fact does come through in many of his quotes, and it is well-placed.
Okay, yeah, I can definitely do that, and I’ll still be an ally if I have the opportunity.