Black Inequalities - Bob Woodson
Text Excerpt from Video: " One of the things that served Black America well in the first part of this century... last century... was the quality of the debate inside. That's what's sorely needed today. There needs to be more debate and discussion about the efficacy of whether or not institutional racism is our biggest fault or whether there are challenges that are internal. My position is that black America needs to have a two year moratorium on complaining about white folks, and use that time for self-examination about how in the past century after slavery, blacks were able to achieve greater gains in a 30-year period between 1940 and 1970 than we have been able to accomplish in the last 30 years..."
Text Excerpt from Video: " One of the things that served Black America well in the first part of this century... last century... was the quality of the debate inside. That's what's sorely needed today. There needs to be more debate and discussion about the efficacy of whether or not institutional racism is our biggest fault or whether there are challenges that are internal. My position is that black America needs to have a two year moratorium on complaining about white folks, and use that time for self-examination about how in the past century after slavery, blacks were able to achieve greater gains in a 30-year period between 1940 and 1970 than we have been able to accomplish in the last 30 years..."
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