6. White Achievement

Have white people achieved anything more than the knowledge that, at some point in time, whites need to accept African-Americans as equals in American society?  I don’t think so. When I was young, I wanted to believe so much in progress and that consciousnesses would be opened. I knew even then that the commitment to social equality had to be made by white people because whites were the source of the race problem and that black attitudes were shaped by the oppression wreaked upon them.