Black
people have cobbled together a defensive subculture out of the English
language and elements of a Western culture that is structured to deny
the equal humanity of non-Western, nonwhite peoples.
Legislation
rarely deals with changing the hearts and minds of a nation.
Legislation cannot deal with anger, despair or alientation that drives
people to pick up a gun, a knife or anything else they can get their
hands on when they feel threatened or disrespected.
Dr
Marable leveraged the considerable resources of well-endowed private
universities such as Stanford University and Columbia University to
enable scholarly access to the works of Dr King and Malcolm X.
