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• pseudo-scientific social theories.
• Murray argued that “American” and “black American” culture were mutually constitutive. There was no so-called American culture without the Negro American formal element and content in its marvelous blend, and no black American culture without its white American influences and forms.
• Quite simply, Murray stood for complexity, and the black experience was—and is, and always will be—complex.
• To race-oriented propagandists, whether white or black, the title of course makes no sense: they would have things be otherwise. But the United States is in actuality not a nation of black people and white people. It is a nation of multicolored people. There are white Americans so to speak and black Americans. But any fool can see that the white pe...
• the people of the United States are being misled by misinformation to insist on exaggerating their ethnic differences.