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We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it.

Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

'White America' is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies.

We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the whites, too, are currently overcoming a psychological barrier.

Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man's God cannot love our people, or He would protect them.

Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and political effects of white privilege has perpetuated racial inequality and race-based political resentments.

Sadly, whites are rarely open to what black and brown folks have to say regarding their ongoing experiences with racist mistreatment. And we are especially reluctant to discuss what that mistreatment means for us as whites: namely that we end up with more and better opportunities as the flipside of discrimination.

White people scare the crap out of me.

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.

Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it.