WE MUST ACCEPT THE FACT THAT EQUALITY IS NOT A HALFWAY PROPOSITION: This century has seen huge changes in the status of black Americans. It has also seen the growth of largely segregated school systems, the development and maintenance of communities. The mistake was in the notion that social, economic, and political equality are not interrelated, that it was possible to go and yet have a workplace and polity where race ceased to be a factor. As long as we cling to the notion that equality is fine in some spheres and not in others, we will be clinging to a lie.
Ellis Cose
November 24, 1996, Newsweek
