Word: misdirected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little different, just a little better than you'd bargained for. You want to believe in this movement. But you know how touchy The System is about acknowledging its more painful economic realities. Speakers at the rally hinted that perhaps the government prefers that its economically ailing whites misdirect their anger at minorities, rather than direct it at the government. The racism-as-interference-pattern-for-government-and-corporateelite theory. A hard one to swallow at first, but in the next few days you will begin to find some basis for it, especially when you start scanning national news publications...
...There are now other dynamics in the election process which prevent the county's great black majority from voting for its own benefit First, many of the "respected" black leaders in the county are Uncle Toms. They are probably allowed to hold their positions exactly because they oppress and misdirect their own people. Second, many black people still vote the way their land-owner tells them to vote. Third, Wilcox County is a dry county with a thriving moonshine business. Incumbent white officeholders need only to threaten to bust the moonshine business during their lame-duck period if they...