There are all kinds of ways in which especially white men in this country have been helped by the government.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.
I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.
As a result, ways out of the crisis are being intensively searched for at all levels - ways, which, however, aim at maintaining the whites' control over the country.
This nation is being divided into black and white, and the present system encourages this.
I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.
We're raised to believe that black men have to be one specific way.
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.
Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.