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developing an unconscious bitterness toward white people; when you have to concoct an answer for a five-year old son who is asking: "Daddy, whey do white people treat colored people so mean?.....when you are humilated day in and day out be nagging signs reading 'white' and 'colored'; when your first name becomes 'boy' (however old you are) and your last name becomes 'John' and your wife and mother are never given the respected title 'Mrs.'; when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro, living constantly on tiptoe stance, never quite knowing what to expect next, and are plagued with inner fears and outer resentments; when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of 'nobodiness' - then you will understand....'**

But w^We are here to take stock ^understand to add up the accounts, to measure distances traveled as well as distances yet to come.
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Without appearing over-optimistic, the job done so har has been remarkable no matter how great the task that remains undone. Who would have believed that a people's opinions and their public behavoir could be changed so quickly.

The [illegible] ^reign of white people priviledge began to end, Jack O'Dell has written, when there was created a "dual authority" in this country.

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***Why We Can't Wait, Martin Luther King, Jr. , New York, Harper & Row, 1964.