The Public Interest

The moral crisis of the black American

Orlando Patterson

Summer 1973

BLACK Americans, like the members of all disadvantaged minority groups and classes, face a critical dilemma in their push toward full equality. At the root of this dilemma is a fundamental conflict between the moral basis of the goals toward which they strive and the means employed in attaining these goals.

 

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