Black Rage & Multicultural Counseling

What must first be understood about Black Rage is that it was written in a pivotal year of American history, 1968. After the rioting that followed the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., came the loss of spirit in the whole civil rights movement reflected by the rise of ultra black nationalism and black power. The Kerner Commission Report, issued in February 1968, agreed with Malcolm, who had been murdered as well, that white racism was the chief cause of black violence in civil disorders (Almanac, 1977). It was the same sense of agreement that moved Senator Harris to declare that the fundamental social and psychological problem for blacks was that they were living in a white man's culture (1968). Moreover, long before the riots occurred there had been an exodus of sympathetic, middle class whites from the civil rights movement toward the antiwar movement, which split the agenda of social r

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nd militant elements of the New York City population (Glazer & Moynihan, 1970, p. xii). What is perhaps most remarkable about such commentary is that it sounds so current. When the mid-1960s brought the new and disturbing term black power into American popular culture, the character of black relations with the whole of America altered demonstrably. Life and Look magazines no longer showed Bull Connor's police thugs siccing police dogs on children; that was as passe as shouting "nigger" at a southern political meeting. Suddenly, the angry faces in the press were black, not white. The rage of centuries of oppression was turned on the oppressors, and the slogan "I have a dream" was supplanted by Swahili sayings and "Burn, baby, burn!" Thus the black power movement turned on white America as an expression of a new consciousness, which one could say was a consciousness of rage. But the response appears simply to have been a more subtle--and yet more lasting--form of hatred. In the climate of black power, such hatred appears to have had far-reaching consequences. As part of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (the Kerner Commission), authorized after the so-called "long, hot summers" of 1966 and 1967, which witne
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