THE FUSE

What, then, is “the view from the bridge”? The outlook is grim. For the black people of the world there is no bright tomorrow. The Blacks may continue to live in their dream of singing, dancing, marching, praying and hoping, because of the deluding signs of what looks like victories, still trusting in the ultimate justice of the white man: but a thousand years hence their descendants will be substantially where the race was a thousand years before. For the white people, still masters of the world, do not have to yield. They have never changed their real attitude toward black people during all the passing centuries, and there is absolutely nothing upon which to base the belief that they will change in the centuries to come (Chanceller Williams in The Destruction of Black Civilization,1971).