Combating negative images is just a part of the undeclared war within the black community, fought on multiple fronts.
We are up against:
"House Negro" fence-sitters. In the antebellum period in the South, such people always saw things through the eyes of their master or boss. No matter how bad things are, these people always follow whomever is in charge. An example is the way Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice follows President Bush.
"Old heads" - decent, well-meaning people, usually shaped by the civil rights era of the '60s and '70s. They are locked in the past, still thinking the black...
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