Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.
Black Power was really a major challenge to the social privileges and structures of the kind of privilege that I had grown up with. That whole belief... that you will only be able to advance if you are perfectly behaved, if you present yourself as what white people would consider an ideal of whiteness... all of that just began to burst open.
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.
The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.
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.
Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.
American history and the black experience are inextricable. And both are inextricable from policing. Far more often than not, that's been a good thing.
Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.