They Realize At Last That Change Does

A Man Who Has A Language Consequently Possesses The World Expressed And Implied By That Language.

Taking The Continent As A Whole, This Religious Tension May Be Responsible For The Revival Of The Commonest Racial Feeling. Africa Is Divided Into Black And White, And The Names That Are Substituted- Africa South Of The Sahara, Africa North Of The Sahara- Do Not Manage To Hide This Latent Racism. Here, It Is Affirmed That White Africa Has A Thousand-year-old Tradition Of Culture; That She Is Mediterranean, That She Is A Continuation Of Europe And That She Shares In Graeco-latin Civilization. Black Africa Is Looked On As A Region That Is Inert, Brutal, Uncivilized - In A Word, Savage.

Certain Things Need To Be Said If One Is To Avoid Falsifying The Problem.

Hate Demands Existence, And He Who Hates Has To Show His Hate In Appropriate Actions And Behaviors; In A Sense, He Has To Become Hate. That Is Why The Americans Have Substituted Discrimination For Lynching.

Sometimes People Hold A Core Belief That Is Very Strong. When They Are Presented With Evidence That Works Against That Belief, The New Evidence Cannot Be Accepted. It Would Create A Feeling That Is Extremely Uncomfortable, Called Cognitive Dissonance. And Because It Is So Important To Protect The Core Belief, They Will Rationalize, Ignore And Even Deny Anything That Doesn't Fit In With The Core Belief.