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THESE THREE PARAGRAPHS BY LERONE BENNETT, jR. ONE TIME SENIOR EDITOR OF EBONY WROTE: ON THE "BLACK ESTABLISHMENT": "ALMOST EVERYONE KNOWS THAT THE WHITE POWER STRUCTURE IS THREATENED BY THE nEGRO REBELLION. wHAT IS NOT NOTED OFTEN ENOUGH IS THAT nEGRO MEN OF POWER ARE ALSO ON TRIAL...NOT FOR THE BATTLES THEY LOST, BUT FOR THE BATTLES THEY DID NOT FIGHT." ON WHITE LIBERALS: "THE WHITE LIBERAL IS SEEKING PERSONAL SALVATION; NOT JUSTICE...WHAT MOVES HIM IS GUILT. WHAT THE LIBERAL SEEKS IS HIS LOS INNOCENCE. WHAT THE LIBERAL WANTS, PARADOXICALLY, IF FOR THE nEGRO TO TELL HIM THAT HE IS NOT AS WHITE AND AS COLD AS SNOW." ON NGRO-WHITE RELATIONS: "IT WOULD HELP ENORMOUSLY IN AMERICA IF THERE WERE A TEN-YEAR MORATORIUM ON THE USE OF THE WORD LOVE...IT IS NOT REQUIRED, FINALLY, THAT WE LOVE EACH OTHER. wHAT IS REQUIRED IS SOMETHING INFINETELY MORE DIFFICULT, FOR US TO CONFRONT EACH OTHER." tHESE ESSAYS WERE PUBLISHED BY BALLANTINE BOOKS IN USA WITH THE FIRST PRINTING NOVEMBER 1965 publisher John H Johnson I concur...We have very few writers today that possess the clarity of expression of Mr. Bennet, and this also reflects by the immoral actions of Government, in all its insidious forms, including, "The Mob"....(c)Copyrighted by Gwendolyn L Mitchell on October 24, 2014 at 9:43AM