·t�
_.. � . '.'>:" ...... •
� "'. . .
','- t • • • , •
, P"
d in rm you If.
II
,
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
21