I think this remark betrays an exquisite form of selfcontempt. a selfcontempt that Is not entirely unrelated to the extraordinary guilt with which liberals like yourself are reacting to our racial crisis. If liberalism Is bankrupt and in decline as you maintain. if it lacks any revitalizing tradition and system of values. then it follows that liberals must look beyond themselves for a new world view. a new source of vitality. They must look figuratively to the East. to African and Asiatic culture. which has always represented in Western consciousness the subjective urges of man. that which Is primitive. irrational. vital. that. in other words which they have repressed. And in America. alas. they look toward the Negro. Drawing unwittingly upon our countrys racist heritage. they place the Negro In the role of the natural man come to revive the juices of white civilization.
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Generalization about African and Asiatic cultures representing primitive and irrational urges.