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Yeah, I don't think there's any such thing as a backlash. I think that is a rationalization for white America of the racist nature of America. I think that the harder black people push for their liberation, the more institutions they threaten in white society, the stronger white

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people will fight to maintain those positions. For example, in Cicero this summer, black people knew that they could not live in Cicero. White people knew that they would not allow black people to live in Cicero when black people threatened and challenged white people when they attempted

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to move into Cicero and white people had to stop them. That's not a backlash. That's white people defending traditional ways of life. They've been unchallenged by black people. I think that's what the entire society has been calling a backlash. For example, When California, as liberal as

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it is supposed to be, had an opportunity to vote on Proposition 14, we saw just how liberal that state was and that that was not a backlash that was white people reinforcing their institutions in their ways of life. And so if the election is anything, it's

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just a continuum of that racism, it's not a backlash.