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I'm just speculating. The Democrats, if they are to succeed-- this is my speculation of what I hear them saying-- as a majority party, particularly in national elections, they feel that they will have to find some way of regaining the majority of whites who were part of the Democratic majority coalition from the Roosevelt days by changing their image in regard to blacks. They've got to find some way of playing a very complicated political game that has a lot of quandaries and booby traps, by finding some way of alienating blacks. Now the question is, if they succeed in that, where would the blacks go? Certainly they can't go to the Republicans, because this administration made that clear. They can't go to independent parties, because the independent parties have no chance in American politics. Where will they go? I don't know. They'll just probably have to either sink further into despair or express their frustrations and despair by random, uncoordinated, unsystematic, urban explosions.

Blacks are in a-- as I see it now, they are really in a mess. And maybe one of the ways they can deal with it is to deny it, to look at “alleged gains”, to buy the white view that they've succeeded enough. I don't know how they could do that and still look at our ghettos. I don't know how they could really do that. Even middle-class blacks must know that a substantial percentage of blacks are unemployed. They must know that young blacks are incredibly unemployed.

See, there's no way they can really protect themselves from