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Who is more violent than we? We now confront huge questions, in extremis, questions exploding from the tattered soul of our imperfect, inter-connected destinies. Where in the world did those suicide pilots come from? Why are we cozying up to the self-appointed military rulers of Pakistan? Why are we relying upon close collaboration with the only government that deems the Taliban legitimate? Why do our crisis managers persist in bypassing and/or second-rating India, the world's largest democracy—which happens to exist less than 800 miles from Afghanistan?
All four of these African Americans share a raging and a sorrow at the discount of our people. We have moved from The Invisible Man to The Invisible People. It's a raging and a sorrow at the terrible meaning of that discount— for us, and for democracy itself. All four of these faithful Americans have devised, per force, a survival of The Greater Evil, more than once in their lives. And so they view this most recent triumph of The Greater Evil with profound shock, anger, and alarm. As Toni Morrison sees it, “This is NOT just the Republicans!
But one thing has not changed: In 1965, most of the participants of the Civil Rights Revolution could not vote. In 1965, throughout the South, it was deadly dangerous to be black and even try to register to vote. So voting, or the right to vote, was a goal, yes, but not an overriding objective, nor was it a strategy, nor was it a tactic. The overriding objective was freedom from American apartheid: its violence, its short-circuiting of our dreams whenever and wherever we lifted our eyes to the hills, hoping to behold the full light of the opening skies.