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To: Cogito who wrote (48078)	2/6/2008 7:32:46 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541183

He said that most black people would rather deal with a Southern cracker than a Northern liberal, because the cracker would at least be honest about how he felt... I had occasion to discuss that in detail with a Southern black friend in the seventies and he said the same thing. He preferred to know where he stood and had trouble reading Northerners. I remember that discussion because I found it so odd at the time but, once I digested it, it made sense.

To: Cogito who wrote (48078)	2/6/2008 9:48:22 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541183

MLK said that in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail: I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.