Cornel West

"One of the ways in which oppressed peoples have been socialized under oppressive conditions is to love everybody but their own people - that's the ticket for success: highlighting everybody else's situation. And you can't say a mumbling word about your own because if you talk about your own you're going to touch sources of anger and rage and indignation and that's the very thing that threatens the status quo, that's the very thing that upsets them".