Black Like Me

“It’s high time we stopped giving the communists credit for every decent, brave, considerate act” white men might show in regard to black men.

Griffin “knew they were referring to the souls of prejudiced white Catholics,” and wondered “why they appeared to have so little ‘fear’ of alienating the souls of Negroes.”

As the situation in the South degenerated after the 1954 Supreme Court decision on segregation, he was faced with a choice - either he must continue more and more to alter truth to make it conform to people’s comfort, or he must write the truth in the dim hope that people would alter their comfort to conform to it.

the gracious Southerner, the wise Southerner, the kind Southerner was nowhere visible. I knew that if I were white, I would find him easily, for his other face is there for whites to see. It is not a false face; it is simply different from the one the Negro sees.

after the 1964 Civil Rights Bill became law, “racists redoubled their efforts in the name of patriotism and Christianity, to suppress not only black people but all nonracists,”

We spoke of the whites. “They’re God’s children, just like us,” he said. “Even if they don’t act very godlike anymore. God tells us straight - we’ve got to love them, no ifs, ands, and buts about it. Why, if we hated them, we’d be sunk down to their level. There’s plenty of us doing just that, too.” “A lot of the people I’ve talked to think we’ve t

every culture teaches us to honor its way while subtly denigrating other cultures.

To call for a little more justice, or a moderately gradual sort of justice, is to call for no justice. That is a simple truth.

racial justice was for the good of all society, not just for the good of the oppressed.