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All in Civil Disobedience
In its negative form, Black rage is distorted so that oppressed Black people are viewed as uncontrollable, thus delegitimizing and undercutting the hundreds of years of slavery, racism and oppression experienced by Black people in America. However, the White privilege viewpoint shows a complete failure to acknowledge Black rage as coming from systematic white racism and oppression.
Yet many people do not understand or believe that the battle even exists; they see and criticize only the individual “bad actor” (or racist) rather than view the large number of “bad actors” as part of what Angela Davis wisely identifies as “the apparatus” of racism. They don’t have the “crisis situation” that forces them to choose a side.
There was a time, in America, when segregation was acceptable to many people. There was a time, in America, when racial, ethnic, gender, and age discrimination were acceptable. There was a time when slavery, segregation and discrimination were also legal.
