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equali ty. tho e who benefit
materially from institutional
raci m now use the term
"raci t" to denounceBlack
critics who call for the enforce
ment of ffirm tive action and
uaJ opportunity legislation.
Behind the myth of equality
exist two cri es, which will
pre ent fundamental challen
ges to African -American in
th dec de of the 19905.
There i n "internal crisis"
- that ita crisi within the
African-American family,
neighborhood, community,
cultur I and ocial institutions,
and ithin interpersonal rela
tion • e pecially bet e e n
Blac males. Part of this cri is
wa generated, ironic lly, by
hat I term the "paradox of
de egregation. Ie •
With the end of Jim crow
egregauon, the Black middle
cl s wa able 10 e cape the
confine of the ghetto. Black
attorney ho previously had .
only Bl c clien could now
move into more lucrative white
I w firm . Black educators and
dmini trator were hired at
predominately white colleges;
Blac phy ician were hired at
hite ho pita .
the BI ck middle cia
increa ingly retreated to the
ubur ,they often withdre
their ills, financial re ources
nd profe ion I contac from
the bulk of the rican-
American communi
THERE E course
many exception, Black
omen and men who under
tood the cultural obtigauons
they 0 ed to their community.
But rule, by the late 1980s,
uch ex mple became more
infrequent. e pecially among
younger Black ho had no
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