"Have Much to Teach Us Today"

"These books aren't perfect. They were all written right as the second wave of feminism was taking off in the United States—so they largely leave out gender in their analysis of the problems of American culture, economics, and politics. But all three books still have much to teach us about the relationship between African Americans and their government. African Americans have always provided the left with its most searing critiques of American society. But African Americans have also, time and again, given the left—and the rest of the nation—the most clear-eyed understanding of America’s highest ideals."

Robert Green at Dissent looks back to 1967 and writings by Martin Luther King, Jr., Harold Cruse, and Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton about "How to Fight White Backlash."