Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.
Practically all of the successful Negroes in this country are of the uneducated type or of that of Negroes who have had no formal education at all.
Somebody has been cashing checks, and they've been bouncing back on us. And these people, the poor class of Negroes and the poor class of white people, they're getting tired of it.
I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.
The negroes more philosophy displayed, - / Used to it, no doubt, as eels are to be flayed.
The source and cause of this need for reaction can be attributed to white contempt and neglect. The historical contempt that the white race held for the Negroes has created a group of rootless degraded people.